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J.B. for Henderson to Gullit
You now, Sir, I dare believe, for the first time
see your transactions with Mr Henderson in the
light in which they would appear to an impartial
public. I have now but a few words more to
trouble you with. Resume your former self:
be to Mr Henderson what you were to the Copper
-agent, and his only concern in this instance
as in that will be to moderate your repress instead of stretching
liberality instead of stretching it. instead of seeking to stretching it Without
recurring to that standard which activity would I admitt
not be as fair as I admitt, though you can not dispute it is not to be maintained seriously as
a fair and important one, [+] where were I asked [+] but which if it were could not indicate so little as a thousand or fifteen hundred pounds,
to fix upon a proper recompense, such as it
became you to offer and him to accept, I should
say that you should not, would not, could not
offer less than three hundred. This, if you really
mean to deal handsomely by him, you will but not
grudge: [+]2 and could I but be certain of your being [+]2 and he I am sure will more perfectly well contented, and sincerely grateful to you for it
the same man that you were a twelvemonth
ago, I should not think it necessary to say a
syllable farther. But as we are all changeable
creatures and the change your letters bespeak which
is all I have to judge by, I am sorry to say does not appear much to your
advantage, and as I wish to make one trouble serve
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