“. . . What a victim of temper poor Lambton is! He has been complaining to me of his unhappiness. I observed in reply that he had a good many of the articles men in general considered as tolerable ingredients for promoting happiness; to which he replied:—‘I don’t know that; but I do know that it’s damned hard that a man with £80,000 a year can’t sleep!’ He has not much merit but his looks, his property and his voice and power of publick speaking. He has not the slightest power or turn for conversation, and would like to live exclusively on the flattery
† Lord Eldon. ‡ The Duke of Wellington. |
| 50 | THE CREEVEY PAPERS | [Ch. II. |
