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The tormented nobleman, craving for advice and sympathy, lost little time before he sought out his friend and kinsman, Mr. George Hamilton. He found that gentleman, who had just returned from a game of pell-mell with his Majesty, refreshing himself with a pot and sop in his own chambers, before committing himself and his mid-day toilet to the hands of his valet. Chesterfield drove out the man incontinent, and closed the door on him.
"I want a word with you, George," said he, breathless and agitated -- too disturbed and full of his subject to apologize or finesse. "It's all out; I've discovered the truth; and, curse me, if 'twere the King himself, I'd bury my sword in his treacherous heart. As it is"