that I do not believe there is any thing in this nation or in any other that exceeds her in such exact order without ostentation, but every thing substantially great and noble. The meanest servant is lodged so neat and cleanly, the service at the different tables, the good order and decency—in a word, the entire economy—is perfectly becoming a wise and noble person.[1] She is one who, for her disinterested esteem for me, from a long and worthy friendship, I must ever honour and celebrate. I wish, from my soul, my Lord, her husband, whose parts and abilities are otherwise conspicuous, were as worthy of her, as, by a fatal apostacy and court-ambition, he has made himself unworthy of her. This is what she deplores, and it renders her as much affliction as a lady of great sense and much prudence is capable of."[2] And the Duchess of
- ↑ The following commission to Mrs. Evelyn proved that Lady Sunderland was a good manager, and looked well after her servants. " My service to Mrs. Evelyn—I wish she could recommend me a good and understanding man that were sightly to wait, who might be between a clerk of the kitchen and a steward, that were a very good accountant, and who understands choosing of meat, and very honest—enough so as not to think of taking poundage. His wages should be the better for it. 'Twould be a great obligation." —Mr. Upcott's Manuscript.
- ↑ Evelyn had good reason to speak well of Lady Sunderland. She had treated him and his son with a generous hospitality,
