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§.1 Purchase of Ld Salisbury's on the proposal of Mr Long
comparison of the natural that had him
for for between four and five or I may say six I had from enduring for a time which was then
near five years and a half without reckoning the years
spent in sollicitation without notice.
years. Whatever choice gentlemen in their compassion of their grace
might thus be pleased to indulge me in with, was
a precisely a Hopsons choice. What the subjects of the Empire
of Morocco were to Moulay Ishmail, I was to
Mr Long: with this difference at each moment, that the will and pleasure
of the African Emperor, whatever it might
be, was communicated to the prostrate
commonly with facility enough, whereas, in my
unhappy case, to learn the will and pleasure
of my the invisible and inaccessible member arbiter of my fate – there
was the great, and continually recurring, difficulty.
For the sake of accuracy To prevent disputes⊞ ⊞ (or rather to save myself from the possible imputation of error, in a case where if a little were misstated, that little would be as usual, be the only thing noticed on the other side) to guard myself I say against this danger it may be as well here
to mention – though I see not for my own part any material result
not that I see any difference that can result from it –
that I am not altogether clear whether the date above
mentioned, and which is fixed within a day
or two by a letter of mine to Mr Long which will
follow a little further on – was the date of my admittance into
his presence – chamber, one of the as above (though it be one of the very few days, that ought
in gratitude to have been marked with as red letter days
in my almanack) or the date of an immediate
veneration, in the Park, in the course of which
viz in the course of about 120 minutes somewhat less than three minutes a glympse
of this halcyon prospect was first played before my
eyes. Mr Long, The Honourable Secretary in the pomp
pomp privileged in the pomp of privilege,
the fruit of royal favour, enseated on his prancer,
overtook my disconsolate solitary and solitary feeble steps:– I, as
your Lordship understands already, without staying
to be told, in pursuing my melancholy touch way by this only
mode
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