26 FRENCH OPINION eeptions : though on the society of the gentlemen she animadverts with the most flattering consideration ; and even to that of the ladies she makes a frequent and generous, but not very successful, effOrt to be civil. However, with all the politeness and good-nature of this fine writer, two qua- lities which she seems to have possessed in no ordinary degree, it frequently es- capes her, that she found the English ladies.deplorably deficient in those shining talents and airy graces which embellish society. Had her visit to London been three or four .years later, n she might possibly have found, in some quarters, stronger marks of improvement in this talent so near her heart ; at least if any expectation might be formed from their subsequent intercourse with the society of Paris, the charms of which she never fails to exhibit in those glowing colours which she so well knows how to lay on, even on the worst ground.
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