The Duchess of Devonshire made a habit of eavesdropping on the proceedings from a secret room in the tavern, and she was no lover of bawdy songs and ballads.

德文郡的公爵夫人就总是习惯在酒馆的一间密室里偷听音乐社的活动，她不喜欢那些低级下流的歌曲和情歌。

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On the mantelpiece stood a card with the telephone numbers of his closest friends, Artemis Cooper (whose biography of Fermor is being published this month) and Deborah Mitford, later the Duchess of Devonshire.

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Through his door came an extraordinary mixture of people: drunks and gamblers from his underworld life, Kate Moss and Jerry Hall, Francis Bacon and David Hockney (both friends), the Duchess of Devonshire and Lord Goodman, performance artists and men with razor scars on their faces.

ECONOMIST: Lucian Freud, painter, died on July 20th, aged 88