My lord protested in the most solemn manner, that he
still continued in his former resolution, and, again beseeching him
to bear him company into France, promised that everything should
be settled to his satisfaction upon their return to England. M--,
however, still persisted in his refusal, for the above-mentioned
reasons, and, though he never heard more of the annuity, he
nevertheless continued to serve his lordship with his advice and
good offices ever after; particularly in directing his choice to
an alliance with a lady of eminent virtue, the daughter of a noble
lord, more conspicuous for his shining parts than the splendour
of his titles; a circumstance upon which he always reflected with
particular satisfaction, as well on account of the extraordinary
merit of the lady, as because it vested in her children a
considerable part of that great estate, which of right belonged to
her grandmother, and afterwards put him in a way to retrieve his
estate from a heavy load of debt he had contracted. When my lord
set out on his Paris expedition, the money M-- had received from
his generous friend at Paris was almost reduced to the last guinea.
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