Excerpt from The Newcomes, Vol. 3 of 4: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
However much Madame la Duchesse d"Ivry was disposed to admire and praise her own conduct in the affair which ended so unfortunately for poor Lord Kew, between whom and the Gascon her grace vowed that she had done everything in her power to prevent a battle, the old Duke, her lord, was, it appeared, by no means delighted with his wife"s behaviour, nay, visited her with his very sternest displeasure. Miss O"Grady, the Duchesse"s companion, and her little girl"s instructress, at this time resigned her functions in the Ivry family; it is possible that in the recriminations consequent upon the governess"s dismissal, the Miss Irlandaise, in whom the family had put so much confidence, divulged stories unfavourable to her patroness, and caused the indignation of the Duke, her husband. Between Florac and the Duchesse there was also open war and rupture. He had been one of Kew"s seconds in the latter"s affair with the Vicomte"s countryman.
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