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I give for Plechijeff when I only go out to dinner half a ruble and this
not above once or twice a week. Now & then I have them by the day & then
run about the Town the whole day, for this I give two rubles. To Sir
James Harris's unless when there is much Company or bad weather,
I walk & contrive to save the repute notwithstanding the great aversion
every class of people here has to the Idea of walking.

You tell me, Sir, that I used to make use of Shifts & undergo some
hardship from oeconomy: believe me in that never so much as now
tho' perhaps never with so good a will and so great a necessity.
Coarse Bread, black and sower with sometimes milk & sometimes water
was my food the greatest part of my journey, not because I cod
not get other but really because I would not be at the expense
of it. In a bed I did not sleep during my Journey except while
I was at my friend the Count Chadkiswik's neither have I since
my return. A Sofa on which I sit with a great Table before
me in the day time serves me as a bed at night. The same Cloak
which served me so well on my Journey serves me now as sheets
and blankets. Apples and bread is my food when I stay at home
indeed I may fare princely if I will bestow time & trouble to go out for it.

As to my expectations they are at least as great as ever. The
Man whom you think I depend on most is so out of favour that
he can do nothing, besides he indeed very little deserves that
outward appearance of favour which he as yet enjoys. My
business is with a greater than He of whom we will say nothing
about the deserts. Sir James on whom I depend seems as much
as ever disposed to do my Business, I hope soon but he told me at
first it was not to be done immediately.

Be not, Sir, uneasy, let me intreat you, I have great expectations

Identifier: | JB/539/102/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-10-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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