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back, some how or other after a reasonable time.

If there should be time, we shall send you a Copy
of Count Mellin's Letter; not that you deserve
from us That or any other Token of Remembrance,
are you not a Shabby Fellow to let Countess
Scavrouski go away (to whom, by the by, you gave
a grand Fête, it seems, & so forth) without sending
us a simple Line; notwithstanding that before
she left you, your Affair with Mellin, must have
been over, of which however She did not say
a Syllable.

In short we have not had a Line from you,
since you have been at Kion, nor, I think, since
that Scrap of one from Dubranka, notwithstanding
the numerous and weighty Commissions with which
we honoured you.

As to the Six Horses you were to have taken
us in to buy of you, my Brother says; you may
keep them to feed Crows with; He is become
very uppish since the Purchase he made t'other day,
at Stavsdub, where he bought seventeen, including
two Mares, which would not disgrace Hyde Park,
and which, were it not for their Sex, would match
extremely well with a Pair of very good Coach Geldings
he bought of the poor old disgraced Russ, for Steward, igt The Prince Potemkin's
Steward at Critchoff; He has another above
him at Debranka, wch is the principal Estate. Provotel,

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