A Chronicle of the Fermors, Vol. 1 of 2: Horace Walpole in Love (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from A Chronicle of the Fermors<br/><br/>Not that she was a bad, or an unscrupulous woman she was only a clever and a very business like one. She perceived that it was sometimes necessary to lay principles aside for a season, when they happened to come awkwardly in the way Of more important things; but otherwise she had, on principle, a profound respect for principles. She would not, for instance, commit herself by telling the smallest untruth if it could be avoided; but if a tri?ing falsehood stood in the way of an impor tant end or aim, a place about the Court say, or the favour Of a royal personage, then she was open to temptation. It is true that she had compro mised herself by some positively questionable acts.

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