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Permitt me, my dear Sir, to express
my grateful acknowledgements
of the honour done me in condescending
to consult me on your
proposed marriage. The observations
which I took the liberty of submitting
to you in consequence have reached
Petersburgh I imagine, about ten
days: before which time I take it
for granted the question they relate to
has one way or other been decided.
But from a gentleman in your situation
much consistency is not to be
expected: Love seeming to have been
as generally admitted as charity, to
the privilege of covering a multitude
of sins. As my good star would
have it I did not take a very
peremptory part on the one side
or the other: and as you were pleased
to ask me whether I had
any thing to say for or against, I accordingly
made the compleatest use
of the liberty thereby given me,
by offering such arguments as occurred
to me on both sides. With
regard to one argument On one topic I must confess
I was altogether silent; viz:
the degree of your affection for the
fair object: not as holding it to be
the least-material of the number,
but that some how or other I could
not keep looking upon it as more than
probable that some time or other it
might

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might present itself to your consideration
of its own accord. The event has proved
that presumption not to have
been ill grounded: insomuch that
the stones which the builder thought
it unnecessary to lay, has accordingly
danced into its place with as
much alacrity as if Neptune Apollo
or Amphion had passed a country
dance to it, and is become after all the
head-stone of the corner. To
these observations you, Sir, who
after having been long enough the
pupil of a court are now
arrived to the dignity of prescribing
to it its topics for conversation, have
doubtless the answer ready. You
knew me too well not to be assured
that to imagine it possible that
any advice of mine on such an
occasion could be of any other
that the moderate and impartial
stamp of which it proved to be.
And now, I think, it may be time
the account of compliments should
close on both sides.

Ever since I have decypherd the
arcana I have been as full of cogitabundities
as ever Mambres was.
That Miss or Countess or Princess
or whatever she is should have her
nose burst out a bleeding, upon Mama's
speaking to her, that this bleeding
should produce a of the fatal

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