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Let me see — ay, that's very true: so I had — I had once
upon a time an animal belonging to me they called a Brother.
It used to go upon two legs, and now and then write
letters — I should Is it alive, I wonder, or dead? I should
like, methinks for the joke's sake to know what is become of it.
Alas! my dear Sam - for all this nonsense, I am by
no means in a joking humour. I am as melancholy
as ten church mice. Here have I for more than this
week past been dancing attendance upon a little ......
(what shall I call her?) my hopes growing every day less
and less. On Monday sennight I came to town to write
her a letter: and a letter I did write her on Tuesday
and Wednesday an enormous long one. The English of it was
in the first place to desire her not to stay long in the
next place to appoint time and place for me to meet
her. It is now Wednesday and in all this time not a
syllable have I heard from the little vixen. On Monday
last I wrote her another by way of reinforcement to the
first. In the first I had forgot to desire her in case
she should not be able speedily to fix the time, to write
to me. however en attendant to tell me that she had received
my letter and would or would not fix it. The purport
of the second was to supply this omission, and to tell
her how uneasy I was at not having heard from her, and
that I did not know whether to impute it to the cause above
It is a long time since I have heard from you — you have told me nothing
about your Battle expedition - nothing about Miss H. nothing about the wine though
that as matters stand I am very indifferent about. When am I to have this £10?
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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