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Miss Ousnam eloped? My stars! alack & a well aday; &
Lord have mercy upon us! and who could have thought it? a
dutiful, quiet, submissive bashful girl as she was to take
so wild a step! and withal a pupil of Mrs D.'s too! Well for my
part, I think wonders will never cease. But was not
somebody asking just now where she was gone? why — where
should she go but to Scotland to be sure - where else should
she go? — Nobody I hope supposes her to be gone upon any
other errand than an honourable one. Well, but, no, but, be
that as it will, as I say, what a charming subject for conversation!
what a happy thing for the four towns! Dear
creature how much they are obliged to her.

So much for Miss Ousnam — but I can't help pitying the
good man her father. And much good may it do the 2d Lieutenant
of Marines. Thanks be to God, the lot has not fallen
upon thee, my Samuel. Continue to do what is right and
proper. Stick to your old friends, Sam (the Mrs D.?) there's
nothing like it.

This half sheet for the dignity & importance of it, ought
to be kept locked up in the choicest archives of the British Museum.

Thanks to Mrs D. for her promise of sending me my
letters.

As to the picture frames - have not I told you already? (I believe
I have) that Wilson won't be paid for them.

Identifier: | JB/538/159/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1778-01-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	159	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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