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-gular in the opening of his game; but it was a confounded late, for I
soon found his hand as heavy over me as I ever felt yours: in short
he beat me shamefully: and the outcries I made on that occasion were such
as would naturally convey to other people a formidable idea of his prowess.
Now what is all this to Miss Vernon? Why the next evening, Tuesday, Pitt
first proposed a game to her: king plaid, and I don't know which beat:
but after playing one game, she declined playing any more. The words were
scarce out of her mouth, when Ld Shelburne from the whist table, by way of
saying something, called to me as if pitying me for not being able to get a game
upon that they each of them proposed I should play with the other. After some
pourparlers, as Miss V. had before declined playing any more with Pitt, I thought it would
be civiler to both of them for me not to make any proposal to her: so I asked
Pitt, but he declined it, saying, as he had done before that his lead would
not bear more than a game at a sitting: accordingly the chess she ended was
laid aside and we took to our books a l'ordinaire — About an hour or an
hour an a half afterwards, Ld Chatham, having cut out at the whist
table, came to the library table, and proposed to Miss Vernon to play a game
with him. She consented, and they had just time to play a game before supper:
he beat her of course, though not with so high a hand as are would
have expected. Tuesday morning, as I told you, Ld Chatham & went away
and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, as Miss Pratt was there, & not playing at Whist I thought it
not proper to say any thing about Chess to Miss Vernon. Well now comes the
mighty favour. On Thursday, towards the close of the evening, she called me
to her, and asked me (which was what she had never done before) whether I would
play a game at chess with her: observing that she had used me excessively
ill in refusing me and then playing with a Ld Chatham. Mighty thankful I
was as you may imagine: we sat down immediately and we were mighty
and merry; more so than I had ever observed her on any occasion before; insomuch
that Ld Shelburne from the Whist table took note of it, adding that, whatever
was the reason, he never saw her laugh so much with any body as with me.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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