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6 Empress gets me now or in September will make little difference
that he will settle it with Besborotky tomorrow, and that he makes
no doubt that it will rather procure me better terms.
If things go me in the prosperous way they seem in at present
I may be said to be a lucky fellow and I hope one time or other
that you will allow that I have demanded to be so. I have
suffered at times as much as a man of my nature can suffer; but I am
now as happy as I am capable of being from expectation. If I am loved
sincerely I shall now succede in the remaining part of my wishes,
and if I am not I shall grieve but a very short time at my
having been in such a manner duped. As I have long ago ceased to be
very sanguine in anything: so my pleasures of expectation are not so intense as they
used to be. When I had written thus far I was interrupted by a visit
from the Govr General in whose government I shall most likely be employed.
I easy enough grasped his errant; although he pretended to think I was
preparing to he set off for England. Conceive this Vice-roy of a country
as great in extent as a couple of moderate European Kingdoms in
a tete a tete with me at my lodgings saying to me "si vous viendrier
"bien daigner
de me permettre de vous offrir mes conseils la depuis."
digest with yourself this speech and you will have a better idea
of what it is a Courtier can do. The only answer I could
give to such a speech was to assure him that nothing but the
establishments in question being situated in his government and
the idea I had of his disposition & character could have induced
me to make such an offer of my services. Whether however
this man will keep in his part tomorrow is more than I know
of or care much about. His general design was to
know what degree of protection I expected to have, for this
purpose he comended me on my connections, and But his
chief object of all was to know if I expected to have per =
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