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appearances nor would permit me any more to make use
of the english language of which she was not sufficiently
Mistress; hearken who will preach only would she speak
or hearken listen to. She sat a Cousin of hers a princess Gallibscue
who had been her confidant from the first to endeavour
to dissuade me from my resolution proposing that I should
go to England for some months and leave her to gain
her the consent of her parents. Her Cousin however
you may well suppose could gain no point with me
which she herself had failed in. No repro intreaties
or reproaches were spared to add weight to the argument: till
at length I gave into her hand a copy of my letter and
assured her definitively that as I considered it necessary
for my own honour as well as for the better our reciprocal
interest that I should open myself to her uncle she
might be certain my letter would reach his hands as soon
as the Company was gone. I then found it necessary for
the keeping of my resolution that I should get away,
which when she perceived she caught hold of me in
the middle of the room and it was not but by using
force to disengage myself from her, that I quitted the
room and hastened home. A copy of this letter which I
had already in my pocket written and sealed I enclose with this: but I now
fr thought it necessary to write another note to acquaint
the Marshal with what had passed this evening to let him
know that the former letter was all along intended to be sent
to him this evening and not written in consequence of what

Identifier: | JB/539/354/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	354	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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