MARLBOROUGH, Sarah Jennings, Lady Churchill, and subsequently Duchess of, her birth and parentage, 207; peculiar graces of her mind and person, 208; Swift renders homage to her virtue, 208; aspirants to her hand, 208; altogether portionless, wooed and won by the avaricious John Churchill, 208; hard, vindictive, insatiable of wealth and honours, 210; united to the pride of a queen the rage of a fury, 210; brought up in close intimacy with the Princess Anne, her early assumed absolute ascendency, 215; the grounds on which she obtained and held place in Anne's service, 215; intoxicated with her almost unlimited sway, 218; no longer deigns to ask, but commands, 218; her influence well understood by the Continental powers, 218; domination her favourite passion, 221; exercised her absolute sway over the Queen with an imprudent audacity, 222; endless succession of piques, jeers, and misunderstandings between her and the Queen, 222; become a Princess of the Empire, subordinate duties are repugnant to her, 223; her benefactions to Abigail Hill's relatives, 224; perceiving the Queen's confidence in Mrs. Masham, she heaps upon her every species of contempt, sarcasm, and insult, 225; her insulting behaviour to the Queen at St. Paul's, 225; another altercation unduly breaks the links of their friendship, 226; discovers that her empire over the Queen is gone, 228; traces the whole system of deception carried on to her injury, 228; curious predicament between sovereign and subject, 230; her uprightness and singleness of mind, openness, and honesty, 230; long-repressed malice pours forth its vengeance on the disgraced favourite, 234; a fresh outbreak of violence precipitates her final disgrace, 236; her account of her last interview with the Queen at Kensington, 237; terrifies Anne by threatening to publish her letters, 242; her economy in dressing the Queen, 242; the return of the gold key, 244; the resignation accepted with eagerness and joyfulness, 245; the Duchess thinks only of some means or other of revenge, 246; her directions when about to quit the sphere of her palace triumphs, 246; withdraws to her country seat near St. Albans, 246; becomes soured by adversity and disgusted with the Court and the world, 247; disposed to wrangle and dispute on the slightest provocation, 247; a great affliction in the death of a long-tried friend, Lord Godolphin, 247; the Duke and Duchess leave England, 248; the attitude assumed by the Duke and Duchess throughout the political conflicts which agitated the Court during her residence abroad, 307; returns to England shortly after the death of Anne, 308; very far from possessing the influence she had enjoyed during Anne's reign, 308;