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* The Whigs were amused to hear that the Duchess of Gordon was literally running after them. Catching sight of the Duke of Bedford at a party, she ran towards him and in her haste tripped over her shoes and fell flat on her face. Chatsworth 1863, GD to Mq. Hartington, Feb. 26, 1806.
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* If I did not go to his room, to whom would he be able to confide his secrets?
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* The old rumour that Bess was his real mother resurfaced in 1818 and caused a brief stir while Lord George Cavendish, Hart’s uncle, interrogated Georgiana’s former maid Ann Scafe on the circumstances surrounding Hart’s birth.
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* Je vous ai bien ouvert mon coeur et vous avez vue que malgré toute ma gaieté ile [sic] est souvent bien tormenté.
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