[296] See p. 139.
[297] Not invariably, however, for Hannah More once found such a crowd that she thought herself well off to be ‘wedged in with Mr. Smelt, Langton, Ramsay, and Johnson.’ Roberts’s Memoirs 1. 174; 1780.
[298] Ib. 1. 274; 7 March 1783.
[299] Ib. 1. 317; 1784.
[300] Diary of Madame D’Arblay 2. 378.
[301] She once mustered the whole tribe of blues that Fanny might show her old friends that a sojourn at Court had not made her forget them. On this occasion the gathering was exceptionally brilliant, and included Mrs. Montagu, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Boscawen, Mrs. Chapone, Mrs. Garrick, Reynolds, Langton, and Horace Walpole. At this assembly Miss Burney says that she shall be ‘proud to show everybody the just first place she [Mrs. Ord] holds with me, among all that set.’ Diary of Madame D’Arblay 3. 357 (3 January 1788).
[302] Diary of Madame D’Arblay 5. 33; 1791.
[303] Ib. 5. 68.
[304] Correspondence of Mrs. Delany 5. 12 n.
[305] Roberts’s Memoirs of More 1. 285 and 1. 92.