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then to keep the ball, and to avoid appearing a perfect ninny; but it
was pain and grief to me. My health some how or other is in cursed order:
I scarce know how to get up early enough: six o'clock is too late
Hyde Parker it is said (this is Barre's story) is not to have any thing
after all. Being offer'd the command of the fleet against the Dutch,
he demanded a reinforcement; but was denied. Afterwards a re-inforcement
was order'd; then he declared himself willing to serve; but then they
would not let him. This Col. Barre said he had from an officer who
is intimate with Parker. " Ah Johnny" said the old man to his friend,
" twas a rare bout, twould ha' done thy heart good to have seen it:
" there was not a shot that did not take place on either side."
Sept. 24. Monday evening 1/2 after 10 o'clock
This morning at 8 I received yours of the 20th: but let pass. I will go
on at present with my journal.
Thursday nothing happened that I can recollect worth mentioning
no fresh visitors.
On Friday the prediction given of Miss Vernon's departure in the last
page was but too well verified. There was a little incident no I won't
go on with that sentence — A little piece of attention she shew'd me the
night before, while it flattered my vanity, made me feel the loss of her the
more sensibly. On the Sunday before she and I had been playing at Chess
Pitt who did not play at the whist table, and Ld Chatham who cut in
and out had been occasionally looking on. After she had lost two games
to one, which was as many as she had ever been used to play, she gave it
up; whereupon Pitt proposed we should play, which we did, and I beat him
Finding he had no chance with me, he complained of its' hurting his head, and
gave it up immediately. Towards the close of the evening Ld Chatham gave
me a challenge — I accepted it. From something that Pitt had said I expected
to have found him an easy conquest, especially as there was something seemingly irregular
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