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fatal prohibition, and that notwithstanding any
such and Miss's being at her own
disposal into the bargain and having
made so many & such explicit tenders
of her sweet self there should be any
d "fear" of her resolution to bring
the matter to a conclusion. Encore if
there had been a father: but I don't
find there is any such personage in the
case. Certainly if you have stated the
mother accurately and fairly, the knot
must have been tied and the bound
long enough before this. So say I, and
so says Wilson, who is the only person
to whom I have yet communicated
it. My hypothesis is, that whatever
want there may be of resolution
is on the side of the gentleman: who
has always been a shilly-shally sort
of a gentleman, more so even that his
brother, ever since I have had the honour
of his acquaintance.

And to think of my Sams getting
a wife, and being by and by a father!
and of my having a a sister, &
by and bye being an Uncle, by God's
blessing, and having a parcel of mongrel
animals half children and half
bears for nephews and nieces! I shall
expect a full and exact description of her
whether she is hairy all over, how long
her claws are, and whether she has got a
tail — One thing appears, that whatever
may be her excellencies in other respects,
she wants the property the Er. Florida
bears have (you remember) of "never
attacking a man". Alas poor Er Florida!
Jack Spaniard you know is to have it again — Lucky
enough

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enough we did not go there.

I hope by the Courier we shall hear
the name, and something about the assets.
I wish it may prove a Princess (not
that a Princess is any thing with you)
or at least a Countess or a Baroness, only for
Jezabel's dear sake. The passage in
which you spoke of your intimacy
with Princess Dashkoff was a dagger
to her. Not long after on receiving that that letter, Far
asked I me at table to give you that
commission which I suppose you have
received before now, about Brompton
the Painter; adding that he understood
he was intimate with Sr J.
Harris. Hardly intimate said I: he
was not the sort of man for Sir J.
to be intimate with: though he used,
as I understood to take some notice
of him. "Oh" says Madam, with one of her angelic looks," but at
" that distance, very slight acquaintances
" are always magnified into
" great intimacies." The malice was so
apparent that even her first-born
and best-beloved reprimanded her
for it before my face. If it should
be a Princess, to be sure poor dear
Jezabel will break her heart: there
will be no occasion for a to
throw her out of the window.

Then as to assets I wonder whether
her expectations are equal to
poor Miss Pleschijeff's? what will
she and her brother, your bosom
friend say to this abandonment?
were all thoughts of that affair perfectly
given over by all parties? She
has got some little matter, you say, of her
own. This I suppose we shall one of these
days

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