![]() ![]() Rumors about the Sheridan-Grant elopement were already traveling the beau monde grapevine, but the Spectacle, as usual, was the first to put confirmation in print. Their Graces' dark heads bent over the barely dry newspaper. Had they not bewitched the Duke of Clevedon, rumor said, he would never have married a shopkeeper. Three sisters plotting wicked plots-and it isn't us! Oh, my love, when I saw this, I thought I'd die laughing."Ĭertain members of Society had more than once in recent days compared the three proprietresses of Maison Noirot-which Sophy would make London's foremost dressmaking establishment if it killed her-to the three witches in Macbeth. "The ton is in a frenzy-and isn't it hilarious? They're blaming Sheridan's three sisters. "Have you seen this?" she said, throwing down the paper on the table between her sister and new brother-in-law. Waving a copy of Foxe's Morning Spectacle, Sophy Noirot burst in upon the Duke and Duchess of Clevedon while they were breakfasting in, appropriately enough, the breakfast room of Clevedon House. ![]() On Friday afternoon, about five o'clock, the young couple borrowed the carriage of a friend and. ![]() ![]() For the last week, the whole of the fashionable world has been in a state of ferment, on account of the elopement of Sir Colquhoun Grant's daughter with Mr. ![]()
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