But She Seemed Not To Regret Any Fatigue To
Oblige The Person Who Employed Her, And Sent Home All She
Did so neat,
so curious, and well wrought, that the milliner easily saw she had not
been accustomed to do
It for bread, and was very desirous of having her
into the house, and securing her to herself. Louisa thinking it would be
living with less care, agreed to go, on this condition, that she should
be free to quit her in case any offer happened of waiting upon a lady.
This was consented to by the other, who told her, that since she had
that design, she could no where be so likely to succeed as at her house,
which was very much frequented by the greatest ladies in the kingdom,
she having the most Curiosities of any woman of her trade, which they
came there to raffle for.
On this Louisa took leave of her kind landlady, who having taken a great
fancy to her, and believing it would be for her advantage, was not sorry
to part with her. A quite new scene of life now presented itself to
her: - she found indeed the milliner had not made a vain boast; for her
house was a kind of rendezvous, where all the young and gay of both
sexes daily resorted. - It was here the marquis of W - - r lost his heart,
for a time, to the fine mrs. S - - ge: - here, that the duke of G - - n
first declared his amorous inclinations for mrs.
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