English fiction -- 19th century; Walker, Robert, 1710-1802
{85} There is a tradition that this is one of the families which claim
to wear a hat in the presence of Royalty.
{89} The Packington family.
{91} The history of Martha will remind some readers (though the facts
are very different) of that of Mary Robinson, commonly called “The Beauty
of Buttermere,” who was betrayed into a marriage by the notorious
Hadfield, under the feigned name of Colonel Hope. Hadfield was a man of
good birth and education, and was afterwards hanged for forgery. Mary
died not long since, the mother of a large family, in a good old age, a
subject of notoriety and curiosity to her dying day. Yet Robert Walker
loved his dead Martha _quite_ as much as his living Mary!
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