Miss C-ss-l, Mother Kelly’s, Great Marlborough Street
Her brows are arch’d, and rather full and thin,
To shade the dazzling light that dwells therein.
This accomplished Lady, fraught with every perfection, and being a native of the City, has trod the path of love for some six years, tho’ being only twenty, and only recently returned from the keeping of a gentleman from whom she gleaned a great many things, including her name. She is genteel and well made, with a beautiful face, the tints in which are done by nature alone, fine light hair, and a pretty learing eye, that would make a monk disregard his vow of celibacy; her lips tempting; her teeth even, white, and regular; her foot and leg smart; her toute ensemble is very agreeable, and her blandishments make her a desirable companion, as she dresses in the height of the Ton, sports an elegant rattler, and at present figures away in the first line. She is so very careful of her health, that before she receives her ten guineas, she must examine every one of her partner’s legs.
Damaris Le Froy, born 2nd March 1742 in Covent Garden to Priscilla Le Froy, the daughter of a respectable Huguenot family of Spitalfields. Priscilla, having been seduced by a rake-hell of undistinguished provenance, cast out and shunned by the family she had shamed, by necessity began to ply her adopted trade in Covent Garden shortly thereafter.
In the misfortune of her mother’s early death, fate smiled upon young Damaris, her having been taken in to the convent of a notable benevolent Mother of the Sisterhood and having there been educated in music, dancing, French, Italian, and needlework, as well as the arts of Venus. It was there she was first induced to practice those learned arts, and many of her new profession noted and remarked on the price for her induction-a fee given to the house at least thrice, and not long after bought free of her debt by her first keeper.
In the years following, Miss Le Froy-alias Polehampton, Byrd, Carew, and lately Cassel-has learned the finer points of the other sort of riding, beget two children of love to be kept in the country, and become renowned for her charms both in and out of the bedchamber, earning admiration as a gracious counterpart to all those who sought her companionship, the latest of whom is The Most Honble. The Marquess of Cumbria, who has taken her into keeping in Golden Square.
When not privately engaged with him who keeps her, Damaris is frequently to be found at whatever one may lay stakes on; Faro and horse racing being perennial favorites.
