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who will give to understand that he thinks her still desirable. It
was by this manoeuvre I suppose that I escaped contempt:
for it did not appear to me that I was worse looked upon than
others who had so much more to say for themselves. They
(I mean Ld & Lady P.) are to be here in the course of the
summer: but separately, it being So contrived, thinking it would
be the more agreable to them. The Dutchess of Bedford is
also to be here: she is you know related (I dont know yet
precisely in what manner) to Lady Shelburne: so also I
believe is a personage of a nature very disparate to the former
I mean Dunning. I mean that he is expected here. You have in the newspapers of a day or
two ago a mighty pretty paragraph about the Dutchess's being
all summer long in town: the fact is she is at Wooburn.
Yesterday we had at breakfast old Sr Edw. Bayntun: tomorrow
we have at dinner Sr James Long nephew & haeres designatus
to Ld Tilney. This morning went away honest Jo. Townsend,
a parson, brother to the Alderman: we found him here on
our return from Wilton on tuesday. He seems a very worthy creature, has
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