shall cut a sad figure among all your Devonshire Beaux in this dusty, travelling apparel, and I havenot wherewithal to change it. You can ^procure lend me somepowder perhaps, and I must get a pair of Shoesfrom one of the Men, for I was in such a devil of a hurry to leave Lyons that I had not time to^{have anything pack'd packedup} pack^ up ^anyth^ing but some linen." Kitty very readily undertook to procure for him every thinghe wanted, & telling the footman to shew him intoM^r Stanley's dreſsing room, gave Nanny orders to send in some powder & pomatum, which orders Nanny chose to execute in person. As Stanley's pre::parations in dreſsing were confined to such very trifling articles, Kitty of course expected him in about ten minutes; but she found that it had not been merely a boast of vanity in saying that he was dilatory in that respect, as he kept her waiting for him above half an hour, so that the Clock had struck ten before he entered the roomand the rest of the party had gone beforeby¹ eight.