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" Norbury's good qualities were all clouded by these violent, ultra aristocratic notions; for she was in reality a kindhearted woman, with a well-cultivated mind; and, when she chose to unbend, she could be very agreeable; but this was rarely the case,... "
Almack's: A Novel - Page 145
by Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1826 - 413 pages
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Almack's: A Novel, Volume 1

Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 416 pages
...divided into two classes—patricians and plebeians; she knew of no shades, no go-betweens—people whom every body knows, or people whom nobody knows;...with a power of concealing these defects VOL. I. H from a common observer by her wit and vivacity. The power of pleasing she considered as an art reducible...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1827 - 576 pages
...divided into two classes—patricians and plebeians; she knew of no shades, no go-betweens—people whom every body knows, or people whom nobody knows...unfeeling, with a power of concealing these defects from a common observer, by her wit and vivacity. The power of pleasing she considered as an art reducible...
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The London Magazine, Volume 17

1827 - 608 pages
...visitations of Heaven : it seemed to her as if it was lion de noblesse point de saint. Lady Norbury'a good qualities were all clouded by these violent,...unfeeling, with a power of concealing these defects from a common observer by her wit and vivacity. The power of pleasing she considered as an art reducible...
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The London Magazine, Volume 7

1827 - 618 pages
...violent, ultra aristocratic notions; for she was in reality a kindhearted woman, with a well -cultivated mind ; and, when she chose to unbend, she could be...unfeeling, with a power of concealing these defects from a common observer by her wit and vivacity. The power of pleasing she considered as an art reducible...
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Almack's: A Novel ...

Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson, Charles White - 1827 - 630 pages
...; and, irheii she Cnosc to unbend, she could be very agreeable ; but this was rarely the case, Tor she was fastidious in no common degree, and it was...unfeeling, with a power of concealing these defects from a common observer by her wit and vivacity. The power of pleasing she considered as an art reducible...
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Almack's: A Novel ...

Charles White - 1827 - 616 pages
...difficult to meet with any person less generally liked than the haughty Countess of Norbury. Lad}' Anne, her daughter, was extremely beautiful, fascinating,...unfeeling, with a power of concealing these defects from a common observer by her wit and vivacity. The power of pleasing she considered as an art reducible...
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