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[Footnote 8:]

Probably the Berrys.

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[Footnote 9:]

Miss Lydia White, the "Miss Diddle" of Byron's

Blues

, of whom Ticknor speaks (

Life

, vol. i. p. 176) as "the fashionable blue-stocking," was a wealthy Irishwoman, well known for her dinners and conversaziones