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so formidable a Squire.

Now we are upon dangerous men, what think you of the Captain?
a man more dangerous than Wilson by 3 inches? a man
almost as much more dangerous than Wilson, as he is more dangerous
than a poor animal who used to be called so in derision?
and withall a handsome well-proportioned young fellow of three
or four and twenty, which I forgot to tell you? Take care you don
fall in love with him upon this description, mount a white palfrey
and in go in quest of him, as eastern Princes used of Eastern
Princesses after looking at their pictures?

'Twould have made you laugh to have heard the argument
betwixt Wilson and me last night, the result of which was
the taking of Sam into the trust. I maintained there was danger
of my becoming a rogue without his knowing it; (acknowledging you
may be sure that I was an honest man at present) he maintaining
the contrary. I had the satisfaction of prevailing; and so Sam was taken
to in upon the principle that it was more difficult for two
men to turn rogues and keep true to one another, than for one
to turn rogue and keep true to himself.

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This post has brought us some tolerable news from Liverpool
by the way of Brompton — Let me congratulate you upon it
my - (I know who would have said ... "my sweet girl" — but alas!
those words of ownership are not for me.) He who takes
upon himself to use them will give you particulars.

Linc. Inn Dec:r 13th. 1777.

Take an instance of honour oddly associated with villainy. We had
it from the tall Captain. Not many weeks or at least months ago
some smugglers committed a murder on an Excise Officer with great
circumstances of cruelty. Well and so — but there is not room for it.
you may have it perhaps in my next.

I dread the answer to my rashness of last night: and wish I could retract
it.

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Identifier: | JB/538/148/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-12-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings	[[main_headings::"Travels of G. Wilson and J. Bentham Esq, from Maresfield[?] to London"]]
Folio number	148	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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