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much trouble on the subject. As to the subject you tell me
hints at, talk to me she may talk on that as well as on any
other subject when she sees me, but with me she certainly will
not talk.

It is a strange notion she has got that an apology is due to her
for every thing written by either of us to the other which she does
not see. When I called upon her after receiving your letter,
I put it with me in my pocket to shew her the extract from
that to G. Guy. You know there was nothing in that letter of
your's but what might be seen by any body. Upon my just
casting my eye over it before I put it into her hands, she
took notice of it as if it were somthing extraordinary and which
should not have been done, my looking at it to see whether
there was any thing in it that was not to be shewn. Mrs
The consequence was I was very near putting it up in my
pocket again. Mrs Nairne was in the room. This did not
hinder her from telling me that she had seen a Gentleman
who seen me at Ripley: which was done in a
and with a look that, when compared with what she
said to you at different times, sufficiently shewd she has
particular meaning in the observation. I saw the drift of
and therefore not a syllable about the gentleman did I say
to her.

It is wonderful that upon matters of a nature so delicate (at
least according to my notions so delicate, I do n't know what
it may be according to her's) as that which she supposed to be concerned a man should not be at liberty to
choose whether he will or will not communicate: and that not
only with persons with whom he is on an intimate footing, but
with people who in comparison are strangers. I told you I believe,
that Mrs N. was in the room. It is not thus I deal
with Mrs D. I suppose I have as good a right to expect to
hear of her concerns from you as she of mine. Yet I dare
say, you must remember that if at any time you have received
a letter from her, and have expressed the least degree of backwardness
to tell me the contents, I have said not a syllable about it.
Adieu my dear Sam, my paper is out, and there is an
end of it.

Identifier: | JB/538/075/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-11-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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