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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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( 9 ) mindful of, and attentive to, the local affairs of the county. In London he entertained on a large and sump- tuous scale, and became acquainted with the smart company and fashionable people of the day. Brilliant and ever-ready wit, unflagging spirits, much shrewd- ness of judgment, and a remarkable charm of manner, compensated for the disadvantage of an exterior of singular plainness. He squinted fearfully, and his ugliness became proverbial. He was so exceed- ingly ugly that a lottery-house keeper—in those days public lotteries were permitted —offered him ten guineas to keep away from his shop when the tickets were being drawn, for fear of his bringing ill-luck upon the house. Yet Wilkes turned this physical drawback to humorous account. In reply to a sarcastic remark of Lord Townshend, he said, ‘ Your Lordship is one of the handsomest men in the kingdom, and I one of the ugliest; yet give me half-an-hour’s start, and I will enter the lists against you with any lady you may choose to name; because you will omit attentions on account of your fine exte- rior, which I shall double on account of my plain one.’ His circle of fashionable acquaintances rapidly enlarged; amongst his guests were numbered two of the most notorious rakes of the day, Thomas
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