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unison & with accordant energy that one thing I was to
understand most compleatly and distinctly — that I must
content myself and be prepared to build upon the Salisbury
Estate itself, if no additional & more convenient spot,
contiguous to it, should be obtainable.

What crowned the whole and gave at once a complexion
of unprecedented practicability to the whole business
was — a sort of providential conspiracy of favourable
incidents, in virtue of which an absolute mathematical
minimum of trouble promised to suffice for the completion
of it. Not only the Marquis was willing to sell, but
what was more his Lordship's Agent (Mr Estcourt the
Sollicitor to the Stamp office) was a gentleman with whom
Mr Long (virtute officium) was under the frequently recurring
necessity of seeing about other business. This circumstance
was communicated to me by Mr Long and the
value of it was not lost upon me. If there could have
been any doubt of its importance in the first instance,
that doubt would have been pretty well removed by the
event. As the unavoidable businesses (whatever they were)
went on, the meetings unavoidably necessary to the carrying
it on, of course took place: but as to my business —
(which may all along be distinguished by the characteristic
name of the optional business) I was never able to
flatter myself with the idea, that by any labour of mine,
strenuous and unremitting as it was, any addition was
ever made to the number of those meetings. If I may
anticipate for a moment — the day on which the business
was compleated (so far as it has hitherto been compleated)
was within a day or two of eleven months
posterior to the day on which it was thus opened to one.
Such was the fruit of the miracle wrought in my favour as
above: — where should I have been without the miracle?

Identifier: | JB/117/196/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	3 continued, 4
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	196	Info in main headings field	narrative
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38813
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