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have not yet learnt the price at which it is to be let. If we do not
agree to take this place, we shall look out for a spot close to the
town on which the oil mill can be erected and look to future time
for the erection of the iron splitting machine.
When I have been talking with Princess Dashkoff about different objects
of rural Economy she has offered to give me the management
of her principal estate where there are I believe near 2,000
peasants for a certain time as 10 years during which time I should
have all that I could make of it over and above what she now
receives which is not more than 2 1/2 or 3 rubles per head.
Something of this kind may have after be done if Anderson or
some such man would come go and live on the spot, it is
situated in a fine part of the Country about 100 miles from
Moscow. But I believe I have told you before that I dont
wish to have any money connections with her. She is as
mean and avaritious as possible with her vanity, which
latter passion is in she is actuated by in the highest conceivable
degree. It is not however by flattering her vanity that I am
good friends with her. Nobody does it less; and yet few can take
such liberties with her. I imagine that it is my intimacy
with her son that forms the cement. She requires the
most servile obedience from him to her and imagines that
all his merit is from her & that expects he should think so.
He on his part has his share of vanity with the best pretentions
to it, sees her follies and is ashamed of them. He is of too violent a
disposition to admit of any governance. I step between as
mediator and she cannot but have observed that of the two I have
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Samuel Bentham |
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