after repeated endeavours to find her what she wished, she was obliged to give up the attemptand to consider it as fruitleſs. There had occasional::ly appeared a something like humour in Camilla which had inspired her with hopes, that she mightat least have a natural Genius, tho'though not an im::proved one, but these Sparklings of Wit happened so seldom, and were so ill-supported that she was at last convinced of their being merely accidental. All her stock of knowledge was exhausted in avery few Days, and when Kitty had learnt fromher, how large their house [.]¹ in Town was, whenthe fashionable Amusements abegainn², who were thecelebrated Beauties and who the best Millener, Camil::la had nothing further to teach, except the Charac::ters of any of her Acquaintance as they occurredin Conversation, which was done with equal Easeand Brevity, by saying that the person waseither the sweetest Creature in the world, and oneof whom she was doatingly fond, or horrid, Shocking