Volume 1 — MISS BURNEY ENTERS UPON HER COURT DUTIES.

[The original editor of Madame D'Arblay's Diary intimates that fictitious names have been given to one or two of the persons spoken of in the following portion of the work. These names we retain in the present text, but the following persons have been identified:— “Col. Fairly,” with Col. the Hon. Stephen Digby; “Col. Wellbred,” with Col. Greville; “Mr. Turbulent,” with the Rev. Charles de Guiffardiere; and “Miss Fuzilier” with Miss Gunning—ED.]