Lady Delacour : A fashionable bel esprit ( woman of wit ) , who Belinda at first considers `` the most agreeable-no , that is too feeble an expression-the most fascinating person she had ever beheld . ''
Lady Delacour is a bel esprit ( woman of wit ) , who Belinda at first thinks `` the most agreeable-no , that is too feeble an expression-the most fascinating person she had ever beheld ( known ) . ''