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give clack check to, since the only Man she could
depend upon in that way has had the misfortune
to have just lost her service: whether for example
the gallant Colonel after the rebuff I was witness
to has ever summed up courage enough
to face her during any of the at the
Cribbage table. If I have entertained any wish
on the affirmative side it must be acknowledged
to be an effort of the highest generosity, the
Colonel being too formidable a Rival not to
destroy what chance I might otherwise have
of procuring a place in her remembrance
missing the Chess board it is possible that for a
week or so she might be led to bestow a
straggling thought upon the once happy man
who used to sit on the other side of it
oin an occasion above hinted at that they or
either of them were wholly as wise as virtually included
under all Bowood. and that they or either of them (I speak as a
lawyer) took any distinct and individual part in the
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incomplete draft of letter 825, vol. 4; printed in bowring, x, 270-271 |
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