Horace Walpole: A memoir With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press

CHAPTER IV.

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Stage-gossip and Small-talk.--Ranelagh Gardens.--Fontenoy and Leicester House.--Echoes of the '45.--Preston Pans.--Culloden.--Trial of the Rebel Lords.--Deaths of Kilmarnock and Balmerino.--Epilogue to _Tamerlane_--Walpole and his Relatives.--Lady Orford.--Literary Efforts.--The Beauties.--Takes a House at Windsor. 82