jenkinson.(80) "What will you, Mr. jenkinson? tell to me, what
will you?" M. de Narbonne, somewhat indign‚ de la mauvaise foi,
and exc‚d‚ des longueurs de son adversaire, (81) was not quite so
gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to
resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his
landlord.

Madame de Stael was very gay, and M. de Talleyrand very comique,
this evening ; he criticised, amongst other things, her reading
of prose, with great sang froid. . . . They talked over a number
of their friends and acquaintances with the utmost unreserve, and
sometimes with the most comic humour imaginable,--M. de Lally, M.
de Lafayette, la Princesse d'Henin, la Princesse de Poix, a M.
Guibert, an author. and one who was, Madame de Stael told me,
passionately in love with her before she married; and innumerable
others.

M. d'Arblay had been employed almost night and day since

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he came from London in Writing a m‚moire, which Mr Villiers had
wished to have, upon the 'Artillerie … Cheval,' and he had not
concluded it till this morning.

(Mrs. Philips to Fanny Burney.)
Tuesday, May 14.
Trusting to the kindness of chance, I begin in at the top of my
paper. Our Juniperians went to see Paine's hill yesterday, and
had the good-nature to take my little happy Norbury. In the