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She talks very bitterly against him even now . You see , knowing William 's weakness , she played up to it , but not being clever she had n't got her subject properly in hand . I know the poor girl worked hard at the _ Aphorisms _ , but she had exhausted what she knew of those by the end of the first day . She did her best , I will admit , and even took the _ Lives of the English Poets _ to bed with her and concentrated on them until midnight , while she dipped into _ The Vanity of Human Wishes _ before breakfast . But it was no use . William discovered her deception rapidly , and it seemed to annoy him unduly . His visits began to fall off , and after Gladys had artlessly remarked to him one day , ` Who is that Mr. Boswell you 're always talking about -- he must be a great friend of yours .