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some other inconvenience.
Suffice it that I tell you in very general terms that with Dunning
I could have no communication: there was no time for it, except
a joke or two which the Devil tempted me to crack upon him immediately
upon his coming in: with Ld Camden, I had but little, for reasons I will tell
you at large: with Miss Pratt, who is a charming girl in every respect
but beauty, pretty much: she has given me a picture sketch of Miss Fox in
crayons, which she was two days about: it is not ill done considering,
& has some resemblance: with Mrs Sturt in the short who is a good
fine woman at the age of 42 after bearing 18 children 14 of whom
are alive, I had a little but left her after seeing a little
more of the ton of the family which I did not like. With Sturt I had
some general conversation, but saw nothing about him that made him
very interesting to me. With Barre although we have few ideas in common I am upon terms of some familiarity;
owing good nature and companionableness of the man.
Dunning's health
seemed not so much amiss, notwithstanding the
fatigue he underwent at Bristol. He had got up a good deal, before that
happened to throw him back: and the morning he went away, he told me
he had already recover'd himself to a considerable degree. All these are heads
for you to examine me upon: as such I set them down without further particularity.
As to my health it is still but so so: but I promise myself something
from the comfort & case of Thorpe, & something more from the water
which seems to agree best with me. For a long time I had no notion
of riding out, because my lord did not ask me: but at last I found out that his
reason for not asking people to ride out with him, was that all he rides out for
is to superintend the workmen which takes up his whole attention for the
time & is rather sitting on horseback than riding: since that I have taken
heart of grace & rid out almost every day before breakfast, independently
of casual excursions in company.
As to the D. of Bedford's being an opposition man, I understand
as much from Ld Shelburne.
I desire no reflections upon Miss Mercer: it is the greatest satisfaction to me
imaginable to hear of handsome girls falling in love with ugly fellows
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Jeremy Bentham |
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