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account of its height. She was become calm and affectionate
as ever: but upon her understanding from me that I should
even shew her Uncle her letters if he required it she was
becoming angry again: however I persisted in the necessity
there was of hiding nothing and at length she seemed to
agree with me.
As it was necessary I should give her
an account the next day of what passed at my appointed
interview with her Uncle on that morning I sin enclose you
also a copy of my letter to her. I confess it is but
very indifferently written but I scarcely knew was so
much pul perplexed with the opposite consideration of what
I wished to say, and what I ought to say that I could
scarcely write at all. besides I had in the morning sent
another letter previous to my seeing the Uncle. I sent
this letter at noon day by my own servant with orders to
give it only into her own hands the natural consequence
of which was that it reached the mother also.
Since that time She has been as it were shut up
deprived of pen ink & paper and scarcely ever trusted
out of her Mother's sight. She found means however
some days after to appoint me to be under her window some days
after at 6 in the morning, when She let down a letter
to me with a string. I took it to my lodgings which
are nearly opposite and having written an answer returned
again under the window from which She let down another
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Samuel Bentham |
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