t. 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;
her feverish thirst for political and courtly intrigues return upon
her despite the advance of old age, 308;
her shrewd and sound advice to her husband, 308;
survives her illustrious husband twenty-two years, 309;
her reply to the "proud Duke" of Somerset on the offer of his
hand, 309;
the testimony of respect she owed to the memory of a husband who
left so great a name, 309;
the instructive lesson derivable from her extraordinary and signal
disgrace, as emphatically given by herself, 309, 310;
her death at eighty-four, 310;
her singular fate in private life--"that scarcely did she possess a
tie which was not severed or embittered by worldly or political
considerations," 310.

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