lovely which I only repeat to you, my dearest, because I know. … Oh! how I longed for you all! … surpassing anything we have seen at the Pantiles … oceans to drink … some gentlemen overcome … Lady Betty ravishing. … Poor Lady Bonham made the unfortunate mistake of sitting down without a chair beneath her. … Gentlemen all very gallant … wished a thousand times for you and dearest Betsy. … But the sight of all others, the cynosure of all eyes … as all admitted, for none could be so vile as to deny it, was the Ambassador himself. Such a leg! Such a countenance!! Such princely manners!!! To see him come into the room! To see him go out again! And something interesting in the expression, which makes one feel, one scarcely knows why, that he has suffered ! They say a lady was the cause of it. The heartless monster!!! How can one of our reputed tender sex have had the effrontery!!! He is unmarried, and half the ladies in the place are wild for love of him. … A thousand, thousand kisses to Tom, Gerry, Peter, and dearest Mew” [presumably her cat].
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