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time. I had had no more disagreement than was upon just as good terms as with Benson:
each making way having the other alone with me in a
manner which could not have happened without previous
intelligence. My object being to sooth, my address as you may imagine was
at least as friendly as I would have if he had been my Brother upon it that occasion it had ever been on any
other : he begun upon the high ropes too with big
looks and a loud voice, and so be continued as long
as I had patience to he thought proper without the
opposition or interruption from me. There was nothing
for him to do — he could be of no use — nobody minded
what he said no more than if he had been a dog —
he was put to servants work — he did not choose to
be made a slave of any longer — Dr Brown had
told him that that he was to make a great fortune do great things
that he was to get enough to make himself comfortable
the first year, that as he saw no prospect of any
thing of that sort nor of his being of use in any way
a phrase he most dwelt upon, he wished to get out of
the country as soon as he could — he did not like the
country and he would not stay in it, upon any terms.
especially after what Sr Rich Worsley (who had been on a
month's visit to us) had just told him of the laws of the country
according to which any man who struck an officer
was to suffer death. This indeed seemed to be the
greatest of all grievances standing in the way of the
he had notion he had conceived for thrashing formed of the propriety of
any body his thrashing any body who should incur
his displeasure: an English liberty which seemed more
valuable in his eyes that any thing idea of gain to which
however he is not in other respects insensible. Upon
my asking him which I did not venture upon without
much submission and apology whether he had formed
any plan of loss to be pursued upon his return to
England: he had his answer was ready, that Sr. W.
Mansell
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