“I am much flatter’d, dearest Creevey, that you complain when my letters are
short. . . . I went to the Pavillion last night quite well, and moreover am
well to-day and fit for Johnstone’s ball, which at last is to be. They were at
the Pavillion and she [Miss Johnstone] persecuted both the
Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert like a most impudent fool. The former was all
complyance and good nature—the latter very civil, but most steady in
refusing to go. She said she could not go out, and Miss J.
grinned and answer’d—‘Oh! but you are
out here’—then urged that it had been put off on purpose
for Mrs. F., who said she was sorry for it, but hoped it
wd. be put off no longer. All this Mrs. F. told me
herself, with further remarks, just before I came away, which I did with
Lady Downshire, and left the
Johnstones with their affairs in an unsettled state,
and with faces of great anxiety and misery. But the attack was renew’d,
and the Prince
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“I have had new visitors here this morning—Madle. Voeykoff, the niece of the old Russian, and Mde. Pieton, a young friend, daughter of the famous Mrs. Nesbitt and Prince Ferdinand of Wirtemburgh, as is supposed. I talked with her last night, because Mrs. F. praised her as a most amiable creature, and I liked her very much. In short, as usual, the Pavillion amused me, and I wd. rather have been there again to-night than at Johnstone’s nasty ball and fine supper.”
