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till about twelve o'clock, had breakfast, all dressed as ladies (I believe the people of the house thought that we were gay ladies).
Boulton assure me they hadn't a rag of male clothing in the place, all their manly attire being at some other place.
"I love to look like a girl, and to be thought one. I had such a lark the other day with a beautiful milliner at Richmond," he said, sipping his chocolate. "You must know I was stopping at the Star and Garter Hotel, and fancied a new dress; or, rather, I had seen this lovely milliner in her shop—she was the principal—so I went in, gave my order, requesting her to call on the Hon. Miss Murray at the hotel to try it on in two days' time.
"She was a lovely creature, nearly
