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Friday evening Aug. 25th or thereabouts
On Monday we went to Wilton, as proposed — Ld S.
Blanket & I in my Lord's Coach with hacks. It was
not as I had at first apprehended — My Lord was almost as
much a stranger at Wilton as myself — He had been
there but once before, and then without acquaintance.
Ld Pembroke's defection from the court had begun an
acquaintance intercourse in London and this visit was the first fruit
of it in the country. We set out at 6: got there to breakfast
(it is about 26 or 27 miles off) and staid to breakfast
the next morning. It was seeing the place to some advantage —
having the master and the mistress of the house
for Cicerones: a very pretty part of the gardens planned
and just finished by Lady P. is not shewn to strangers.
At dinner the only company beside ourselves were an
officer who is quarter'd at Salisbury (a Major Rooth or Nooth of
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Jeremy Bentham |
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