humours.[1] His sisters and his brother-in-law tell me 'tis insufferable. I have made no complaint of him, but I have been a little sharp with him myself, and 'tis very well past over; they are abominably fooled by their neighbours.
I see one thing very plain that is very ill—they are not pleased with Lucy's marriage; I hope my sister will not find it out, she shall not know it by me. She and my brother are very well pleased with me, and so is she too, but she behaves herself very well. I told you in my last how far I had gone. My brother came to town last night on my summons. I believe he will find no difficulty, and the estate rather better than I represented it. Her brother tells me she needs no persuasions to it, though his person is not taking, but 'tis like to do very well; he is very bashful, and to strangers backward to speak. He was alone with me, and I found his sense very good. I would not let him go to her, till her father came to town. I was told by a very understanding person, that those
- ↑ The Thomas Pelham here alluded to, the son of Sir John Pelham and Lucy Sidney, married for his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir W. Jones, Attorney-General to Charles II. His second wife was Grace, daughter of Gilbert, Earl of Clare, sister to John Hollis, Duke of Newcastle.
