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Sir
Understanding how much you were offended at my behaviour on
the day of your public Breakfast, my intention was at first to
have waited on you for the purpose of explaining how it
happened that I could be guilty of such an impropriety;
but as I since have learnt that I have reason to fear the
not finding admittance at your house, I take the liberty
of writing to you on the Subject.
I am highly sensible that I cannot have the least grounds
to complain, Sir, of any injustice towards me in your resenting
in this manner my misbehaviour at your house, for however
far I might be from apprehending the putting you in such a
disagreeable situation with respect to the Marshal's Lady
the Event was such as cannot but render me in the highest
degree culpable in your Eyes.
In the morning before, when you were so kind as to invite
me to your Public Breakfast, I certainly did decline the
Invitation as positively as I could do; but the assurances
I had received from Countess Matushkin that She Should
not be permitted to come there, joyned to the representations
which some of my Friends made me that my not appearing
at hour house on an occasion when all the English were
invited, would most unevitably be attributed to your
not having given me permission, and the Injury which
that supposition would do me in the opinion of People
in general here, induced me to change my resolution.
The kind manner, Sir, in which you had invited me
insured me that at that time you saw no impropriety
in my coming, and as it never occurred to me that my
declining you invitation then, tended, to my further
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