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When I talked to her about her going, and asked her what time it was to be
in the morning, she said that I should not see her, for that it were to be
before I was up. "Well, and what of all this" you will say " a fine long
" winded story this is a la mode de Bentham to cook up about nothing
at all" Why to be sure it is: and if this had happened with some woman
I should never have made any refection on it even in my own
mind; much less thought of boring you with it. But were you but
acquainted with the girl, and a parlee (as Clinton would say) to observe
the extreme dignity and coldness and silence and reserve ( as much
as is consistent with great good nature which it would be injustice to deny
to her) you would then and not otherwise be able to intimate the value
of any such little expression of complacency as what I have been mentioning.
Oh, and I have not told you neither that it was by her means
that I got upon the footing that I am upon of playing upon the harpsichord
(I mean upon the fiddle with the harpsichord) every afternoon with
Lady Shelburne: but that story I shall spare you; nor of the air
of cordiality and attention with which she received the whisper in which
I took my leave of her at night: in short she actually took that
sort of notice which no well bred woman could have avoided taking
of any man who was paying her a compliment of that sort. In the
morning you will have concluded I made a point of being in the way
to hand her to her carriage: but I did not, thinking it might be deemed
an act of impertinence, and might give occasion to her maid, or people
who had not know the great gulphs of 190 kinds that are fixed between
us, to prate. You can't imagine what a reserve there is in the manners
of this house, nor how little there has been of gallantry towards her in the
behaviour of all the y men that have been here, young and old, as
far as I have had occasion to observe.

Identifier: | JB/539/237/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-09-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	237	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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