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gave such a relish to a dinner good in itself, that I scarce remember
to have dined with more pleasure even with you in a small company
at Queens Place or even tete a tete at .
This Mrs Hamilton although I had never seen her but the
day before was one of those characters with whom I found myself
quite at my ease after the first five minutes and was now
no more reserved before her than I should be after a long
acquaintance! From her intimacy with the Princess & her daughter
I know she want was already or soon would be acquainted
with all my concerns as much of them at least as it would be proper that
anybody should be trusted with, and therefore I enjoyed Mrs
Sch:'s company almost as much as if we had been quite alone.
After dinner we retired to drink coffee in a very comfortable
divan where the fashion is rather to lie than sit. The manners
of this country and of England were by turns the chief subjects of
our conversation when we formed a trio and it the time Mrs
Ham; employed in writing letters in another room Mrs Sch: and
I were engaged with our respective private affairs, of which mine
being the more immediate were treated of most. In the evening
they brought me as far as Sir James's from whence after spending
half an hour with the rest of the company at his house, I walked
to town. I was then as well disposed to sleep as I had been
at dinner time to eat. In the morning I found myself in
better health and therefore in in better spirits than I had been for some
weeks. I have walked a great deal this summer and by that
means have kept under my melancholy and at the same time
have visited my friends without expence. Walking however is
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Samuel Bentham |
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