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My dear Lind58
How go you on ? What is it you have been about?
How comes it I have not heard from you? Oh, I believe
you had reason from somewhat I said in a former letter to
wait till you had heard from me.
Sam has been here, and is gone. Wilson goes to town on
Wednesday. He stays till Saturday. Then is your time for
coming; and not yours only, but if it so please God, and the
parties concerned, another's. There is a two-legged creature I
have heard you speak of as belonging to you. Were it to come
here, could you answer for it's being quiet? If you could, I
should like of all things to see it. You must consider, and
it must consider, it could not see a g creature of it's own sex
here all the while, above the degree of the Landlord's wife
who was Sr George's Laundry-maid; so that what it has to consider
is whether it would prefer its' Master's and company and mine
and nobody else's for 4 days, to such as it might have were
it to stay at home. Toilette furniture and all its' other rattletraps
it must bring of course: moreover it must engage to go up stairs
and sits in its' own room, or let us sit in mine if ever we should
find in it in the way, whenever you and I in our profound wisdoms
are sitting in council over the affairs of state. A servant
if your indolent, proud ostentatious humour should think it necessary,
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