[51] The bookseller’s.
[52] Rochester, in his immortal epigram, had said the same of King Charles II.
[53] This neat descriptive stroke has been attributed also to Richard Paget.
[54] The register of St. George’s betrays a little eager blunder of Lady Di’s which is amusing. When the officiating curate asked her to sign, she wrote “Diana Beauclerk,” and was obliged to cross out the signature—one knows with what a smile and a flush!—and substitute the “Diana Spencer” which stands beside it.
[55] Miss Hawkins says “ten,” and may have had the extra adopted child in mind.
[56] It is a pity he did not live to read the jolly American Ballad of Bon Gaultier, which seems to have a sort of muddled clairvoyant knowledge of this transaction:
“Every day the huge Cawana
Lifted up its monstrous jaws;
And it swallowed Langton Bennet,(!)
And digested Rufus Dawes.