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J.B. for Henderson to Gullit
of man does not appear (nor ever can: he
knows every thing and communicates all he knows
without seeming to suspect that he has any claim
even to thanks for it. On his return to London,
he makes his report & in your favour finding
he could do so with a safe conscience. What follows? You You get
your money immediately: 4000 guineas: and Mr
Henderson gets his labour for his pains. What nothing? You do
not so much as think of enquiring whither your in all this while? at the distance of 10 months? No not a sixpence: <add>not so much as the crumbs at his suggestion you [+]</add> [+] blow off from the copper-dealer's table. What do I say? You do
agent gets back what he is out of pocket, the expence
of histhis long journey: a trifle indeed to Mr
Gullit, perhaps aboutsomething between 20 and 30 pound: but an
object to some people, and surely more than every
man eitherwould either care or could afford to be in advance.
Gentlemen who have not lived much in town London
can form but an imperfect conception of the difficulty
there is to get the speech of whose
who live dwell there: especially when the persons applied
to are people in great business and in a
great stile, and those applying
are in a humbler move in a less
elevatedsphere. Of the cloud of people to whom Mr
Henderson made application before he came back
to Mr Blair I should make no difficulty to say,
and upon occasion to prove, that there were several
upon each of whom Mr Henderson was obliged to
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