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She writes no more to me Yet still to her intimates
professes the same attachment and thinks of bringing
it about. I cannot however flatter myself that she
loves me enough now to take any step contrary to
the will of her Parents nor any effectual means to
gain their consent.

I know not, Sir, whether my distinguishing myself to
my credit in such an affair as this, can give you any
pleasure: but believe me, Sir, however when I assure you
that there was a general admiration of my conduct
in the whole town. had it not been accompanied at the
same time with such a vehement censure of on her's for her
want of resolution to carry it through; such public
applause would have delighted me beyond measures
but I saw too well it was that the love of scandal, that beast
to amour propre, that got me the applause as necessary
to make the censure on her more heavy her appear more blameable and I could not
help telling by way of answer to several especially of the
female sex that who were paying me compliments and
weighing against her for not running away with me
in spite of all Parents the world; that they who censured
her so much for her want of resolution would have been
the first had she acted otherwise to have condemned her
for her for her daringness & disobedience had she done it I can
however no longer justify her present apparent indifference
for she has of late avoided speaking of to me of to our confidants:

Identifier: | JB/539/356/001 "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	356	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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