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1820 Novr 28
J.B. to Baron de Lessert 4
My memry, however so far enfabled as it is has not yet however lost any
of the traces, of the few agreable moments, which, in spite of severe
and to me almost unprecedented till then unexperienced bodily pain, I passed in
1802 at Paris at your house company at Paris and at Passy at
Madam Gautiers . Of Madam Gautiers the place which
I had the honour of prancing in Madame Gautiers that lady's remembrance
I had even now and then the pleasure of receiving
tokens from our ever lamented friends in Russell Square Madam la Baronne
de Lessert in your wife who was then skipping about prancing from room to room
in a state of virgin maiden innocence, can not possibly have
been sensible to the existence had cognizance of my existence, unless it
be were by the glow, with which the sight of a stupid old
man, with deaf and aching ears, may have damped
the gaiety of the rest of the company. I have not perhaps not quite a a bad
bad a dancer dancer with M. Garnier, then Prefect, made Comte then since Comte it
or Marquis Past, and for aught I think I have heard was Marquis, and at any such and I know not what all
besides. If he is a man like other men, and in particular
like other Frenchman, the evidence I gave him of the imposition made upon
me by his discoveries in relation to the monetary monetary sypher
of ancient Rome, as detailed in his translation of
Adam Smith, he does did something for me. Should Mr Blaquiere become known to you, perhaps you might give him the additional honour of being known to Mr Garnier. Only The only per
One person of your family the remembrance of whom (would you
think it?) still a source not of significance is not pleasurable for rather of uneasiness
to me than satisfaction is Madam de Lessert your mother. As I have
It is; for the chanc chance of making the your ladies with a laugh,
they shall have one I will give them one, matter for one, though it be at my own expense.
At that dinner, of which I partook at your house
there were I suppose not fewer so few than twenty in company, all
of the masculine gender — all of them compleatly unknown to me. As we went marched in procession from the drawing room
to the dining room, I observed Madam de Lesserts arm hand
by stuck by her side, waiting for some other to take hold of
it. It had never entered into my conuption, that the honor honour could be designed
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