charming!_" and as she had promised Anne, _she_ had the good fortune,
and I suppose he found her what he wished, for he afterwards honoured
Marianne, and they were both vastly amused at his conceit and folly.

Michael Angelo [9] was _superb_. Since the honour the Prince did
him, he has been obliged to part with many of his servants as they
would no longer work.

We arrived at Fryston from the Ball at 1/2 past six, the rest of the
party at 1/2 past seven, when they breakfasted before they went to
bed.

The next day was breakfast all the morning long, & very jolly they
were. Miles is as eccentric as ever. So odd a man I never saw.


Of their Yorkshire neighbours who did not live in the immediate vicinity,
the family at Cannon Hall saw but little during the winter months;
therefore, during their journeys to and from town, they invariably took
the opportunity of staying a few nights with those friends whose houses
happened to lie conveniently near the line of route. One of the places
thus constantly visited by them was Fryston, where at this date there
dwelt, with a numerous family, the widow of Richard Slater Milnes,
formerly M.P. for York.

The position of the Milnes in Yorkshire was almost unique. In Wakefield,
during the flight of years, there sprang into prominence certain merchant
princes whose names became household words throughout the county. The
Milnes, Heywoods and Naylors, in turn, rose to affluence; but foremost and
distinct among these remained the Milnes, who from 1670 owned the great