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Lrac. Inn Monday March 3d 1777.
Yes, my dear Sam, I did receive the packet, and rejoiced
you may well suppose I was, at reading it. But
what is it that I can tell you now? and what is it
that you can want to hear from me before you write to
Mr D.? If it has put any new thoughts in your head I wish you be would tell me: it has certainly put more
in mine. To me it seems that you will go in precisely
the same track you were going on in already only with more
spirit and alacrity. Your business will be (but what
signifies my telling you what is so obvious?) to make what
haste you can in order to get ready as many things as
you can to shew Lord Howe by the time he comes
back. Be a good Boy, and get up early of a morning and
handle well your axe, and mind your back and say your
prayers, and with God's blessing you will not fail to be a
great man. Do what is proper and right, and you will
not fail to do what is right and proper. To be sure
you would be full as well in the Dock Yard before breakfast
of a morning, as snoring abed. I have enough for
you, or will you have some more?
I dined at Q.S.P. on Saturday and shew'd your
letter (that is Mr D's). I saw no reason whatever for making a secret of it
to any especially as if I had shewn it to one it would have
gone of course to all. The old gentleman chuckled a
good deal as he read it. Madam look'd glum. Hey,
my dear, says he, why you look a la morte? what's
the matter? Nothing else passed that was of any consequence
except that he was pleased and so forth. But pleasure
can never sit for an hour together upon his gloomy
brow. In conclusion he impounded it; or I should have
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