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writing the Fragment. I showed him parts of it. He seemed struck
with them but uttered no praise for he was afraid of being thought
a flatterer. There was a constant correspondence between him &
his sister, who was living with his father at Aberdeen. He used
to show me her letters by which I perceived the impression which
the Fragment had made on his mind. Our intimacy strengthened
& at last we lived together constantly. While living in that habit
of intimacy came Lord Glenbervie & Silvester Douglas who had been
bearleader to the Douglas whose legitimacy had been questioned.
That Douglas was a ward of Lord Mansfield, but he had notwithstanding
so lived to outrun the constable. The great Douglas had his
Opera girl & the little Douglas had his, – so he was recalled in
disgrace. Douglas, who was a pert, supercilious fellow, but had
talents, very considerable talents came & entered himself at
Lincoln's Inn. He & Wilson knew one another & he used
frequently to come & call Wilson to the other side of the room &
leave me in solitude, which annoyed me not a little. Douglas
had seen much of the grand monde, Wilson nothing, – so he
would not lose any opportunity of hearing about it. Wilson
afterwards got acquainted with Will Adam, – father of all the
Adams (except the first Adam,) that have made so much
noise in the world – He was nephew of Adam the architect
who built the Adelphi. He fought as you with Charles Fox.
Wilson was a most determined Whig & a slave to the fashion
Very plain but not the less anxious to be in the fashion.
The aristocratical section of the public opinion tribunal
had prodigious influence with on him. In his study of the laws
of

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