and," added she, with her peculiar sneer, "I dare say Lady Harvey could furnish a mask."
"I think," retorted her ladyship, who cared little what she said, "a muzzle seems more necessary."
"But to resume a subject," said Sir George, "which, whether it be felt or not, is universally interesting. Why, if there be no such thing as love, do we all affect to believe in it?"
"Pray," replied Lady Mary, "don't ask me to account for human inconsistency. Why do people, who would never look at a picture by themselves, pretend to a taste for art?"
"But," interrupted Lady Marchmont, "because some affect a taste, that is no reason that there should not be many who really have it. I, for one, believe both in love, and the love of art."
"Charming credulity!" exclaimed the other:
"'Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of the minute!'
but we all know that you are
'Every thing by fits, and nothing long.'"
