“Strawberry Hill, October, ’90.”
[133] The Cholmondeleys.
[134] The weak and indolent character of Mr. Berry made him always and everywhere a cipher.
[135] Queen Mary asked some of her attendant ladies what a squeeze of the hand was supposed to intimate. They said “Love.” “Then,” said the Queen, “my vice-chamberlain must be violently in love with me, for he always squeezes my hand.”
[136] ‘Anecdotes,’ etc., by Lætitia Matilda Hawkins, 1822.
[137] ‘Walpoliana,’ Preface.
[138] As early as 1754 he wrote to Bentley: “You know I never drink three glasses of any wine.”
[139] “A hat, you know, I never wear, my breast I never button, nor wear great coats, etc.”—Letter to Cole, Feb. 14, 1782.