Note 15 — Chapter XVIII · REPULSE OF GENERAL WHITELOCKE AT BUENOS AYRES. 1806-1807.
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The following was told me by a lady now in her eighty-first year, as having been current in her youth:
“My first is an emblem of purity, My second’s a thing of security; My whole is a name, which if yours were the same, You would blush to hand down to futurity.”