The first
of these inconveniences he bore without any sense of shame, though
not without repining, conscious that it would gradually vanish with
the novelty of his invasion; and as to the last, he conquered it
by means well known and obvious.
"Nor will it seem strange, that he should thus invade the rights
of an orphan with impunity, if people will consider, that the late
Lord A-- had not only squandered away his fortune with the most
ridiculous extravagance, but also associated himself with low company,
so that he was little known, and less regarded, by persons of any
rank and figure in life; and his child, of consequence, debarred of
the advantages which might have accrued from valuable connections.
And though it was universally known, that Lady A-- had a son
in Ireland, such was the obscurity in which the father had lived,
during the last years of his life, that few of the nobility could
be supposed to be acquainted with the particular circumstances of
a transaction in which they had no concern, and which had happened
at the distance of twelve years before the date of this usurpation.
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