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473 back to her brother at Goodwood House, and here for twelve years she devoted her- self to bringing up her little girl. During this time the brilliance of her spirits changed to a very touching and beautiful humility, and it is no wonder BEAUTY by the Honourable George Napier, who, as she writes to Lady Susan, declared that he could not understand why no one had thought of proposing to her before. In spite of opposition from many quarters, the soldier-lover had his way. He had Lady Sarah Bunbury with Lady Sarah Fox Strangeways and Charles James Fox After Reynolds tnat Sir Charles Bunbury, going frequently to see her, as frequently begged her to marry him again, and regretted bitterly that he had divorced her. At the age of thirty-six we find her beau- tiful, gracious, witty, and humble ; a model mother and a submissive sister, being wooed D 34 very little money, but poverty she did not mind now that she had found a peace for which she had long given up hoping. She married him in 178 1. He was six foot two, exceedingly handsome, and as clever as he was good-looking. By him she had five sons and three daughters. Three of the I I