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I am sick to death of this business as you may well believe. It
forces me partly to rummage up or partly to learn de novo such a quantity of
that villainous grim gibber, which I hoped by leaving off business
I had gotten rid of. It is a great load upon my weak shoulders added
to what I have got already. Yes indeed am I heartily sick of
it. But when I think of 9 children and two women whom together
with one at least of their husbands we both love and
with whom you are so inextricably connected, I am still more
sick at the thoughts of giving it up. Allons done. I see I
must draw at last the deeds for W. to execute: and then shall
I have to whip, spur, cut, slash to make him execute them
& do the other &c.
W.'s brother, he said had promised him to let him have the
£ 250 he wanted to pay off Gilbert with: this was to have been
done the last time he was in town: and the Brother was to have
sent up a draught for the money. But instead of the draught came
a letter of excuse. He says his Brothers wife was the cause of
this disappointment: but he is not without hopes, by means of
a friend that lives near his brother, of prevailing still. He thinks
he says his Brother would advance him enough to extricate him
out of all his difficulties if it were not for this wife.
He told me a good deal about his father who according to his account
is more faithless and forgetful of his promises a great
deal than ours'. Only he lays up money instead of running out as
Q.S.P. does or at least is in a way of doing.
When the Mortgage business is finished, then will be the time
to see what I can do with him about giving Mrs A. a security
upon his effects. If I were at Battle I could then take care for
her of those effects that are hers already: I mean so as to prevent
their being seized along with the rest in case of an execution.
Mrs W. I believe will not write this time to Mrs D. — not till
she goes home. She ask'd me, poor woman, this morning just at parting whether I ha I
had got the writings to send to her mother or something to that effect
and whether every thing was done that was necessary to give her satisfaction
W. was by. I told her there remained some few little things
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Jeremy Bentham |
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