Note 65 — STRAWBERRY HILL.
Reading edition
The following little anecdote is extremely illustrative of the tenor of the tête-à-tête conversations of the father and son, during the last two years that they spent together at Houghton. “In one of those summers, I forget which, desirous of amusing him, which his ill health required, I promised to read to him. He said, ‘What will you read?’ I answered, as a young man would to a statesman, ‘History, Sir.’ ‘No, child,’ said he, ‘I know that cannot be true.’”—Detection of a late Forgery, by H. Walpole.