Extracts From the Journals And Correspondence of Miss Berry, From the Year 1783 to 1852;
Extracts From the Journals And Correspondence of Miss Berry, From the Year 1783 to 1852;
Mary Berry
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463 remembered seeing her in society in London in the year 1786. She was in her last years bent almost double, without its depriving her of activity, and her head was to the last perfectly clear and unimpaired. While she was living the most regular and sanctified life, with almost the reputation of a lamb in her neighbourhood, out came the ' Memoirs de Lauzun,' where her jeunesse figures in no ordinary manner. Judge how it must have shocked her family, if not herself. Perhaps (I say perhaps, fo...r this was not hinted to me) she might in her old and respected age have not been altogether so much displeased at having the powers of her captivation in youth recalled to hen In the last invasion of the Eussians, when she was above ninety years old, they twice surrounded Pultovie, the commander earnestly recommending her to leave it She never would stir, and thus twice saved it irom pillage ; but a third and last time the general came with such positive orders to take possession of it and to bum it, and the Uttle town belonging to it, that she was forced away from it and conveyed by her children across the Vistula into GaUicia, where her son and his family had already taken refuge.
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