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and yet three miles off, neighbours being eloigned by the
extensiveness of the demesnes.
All this while I have said nothing of the manner of
my coming here: I began in the middle like an epic poem.
I travelled very snug in my Coach as far as Marlborough,
with a set of people not worth recounting. At Marlborough
where we dined our Coach joined issue with another: the
company Alexander Popham & a certain female: he appeared
to know who I was, and we made a sort of bande a part.
I determined to pursue your plan with regard to the quitting
the hackney vehicle at Marlborough — but alas! what availeth
human, nay Scottish, nay even Wilsonian prudence?
Heaven's great amusement is to make mock at it. Necessity obliged
me to make enquiries before these people which led them
to conclude I was going to Ld Shelburne's — "ed io anchio —
"and I too, said the chambermaid" (for some such personage was
she) "am going to Ld Shelburne's." Thank your stars you
were not in my shoes — if you had been, not all the harts horn
in Godfrey's shop would have recovered you. Je tins bon, but the chambermaid,
Identifier: | JB/539/207/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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