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I went up to her, "hoped she would permitt me to welcome her
"back again to that country", and summoned up courage enough to
take a transient salute. After Miss S. went int to them, the Ladies
staid a matter of half an hour longer. When they were gone,
after a little chit-chat in which no mention was made of my
letters, the topic of Music came upon the carpet. I then took
occasion to observe that a note or two in the Harpsichord was
out of tune, and asked for a key to tune it with: Miss S.
went out to make enquiries, and presently in came the man
with a key and with the fiddle into the bargain: That I thought
looked well: but whether it was Miss S's orders to bring the
fiddle, or whether it was only his own thought I could not be quite
certain. However that might be I then thought myself sufficiently
authorized to propose a tune. We had been playing about
20 minutes when Mrs B. went out as we were in the middle
of her tune, to try on a new gown as I found afterwards: telling
her daughter she should not be long. She did stay however,
I suppose an hour: but unluckily she had not been
5 minutes gone, (and we were still in our tune) when in
came Mr Rose. He staid an unconscionable long time: till
past two, owing partly to a mistake of the servants who desired
him as on the part of Mrs B. to stay till she came
down

Identifier: | JB/538/055/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-09-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	055	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham; Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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