The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
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don't know if he remembers it."
The king, afterwards, inquired after his present family, meaning his dogs, which he is famed for breeding and preserving. "Why, sir," he answered, "I have now only twelve. Once, I recollect, when your majesty was so gracious as to ask me about them, I happened to have twenty-two; and so I told you, sir. Upon my word, Sir, it made me very uneasy afterwards when I came to reflect upon it: I was afraid your majesty might think I presumed to joke!" The king then asked him for some account of the Marlborough family, with which he is very particularly connected and desired to know which among the young Lady Spencers was his favourite. "Upon my word, sir, I like them all! Lady Elizabeth is a charming young lady--I believe, Sir, I am most in her favour; I don't know why, Sir. But I happened to write a letter to the duke, sir, that she took a fancy to; I don't know the reason, sir, but she begged it. I don't know what was in the letter, Page 24 sir-I could never find out; but she took a prodigious fancy to it, sir." The king laughed heartily, and supposed there might be some compliments to herself in it. |
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