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of the original and most better anomaly which had prompted
him to supplant her in the power of the keys. A
grievance which though not much insisted upon weighs perhaps
almost as much as any of the rest, is the name
of by which he is called. means the old
man, and is a term of respect rather than otherwise: just
as Babushka, farther is, an appellation by which an
inferior addresses a superior though ever so much
younger than himself. The same persons who have called
him to his face in speaking of him to my Brother have at the same time
supposed him to be spoken of him as the Colonel's Uncle: a notion my Brother
has formed pretty generally prevalent, and which
may help affect you in judging whether which is
most likely that he has been oppressed with bad treatment
or spoilt with good.
Among To the male seducers must no I have mentioned
I believe we must add another of at whose power you will
be the less supp surprised when you learn that it was a
woman and she rather young than old though not ver
thing with a cap on and though scarce of the most beautiful
yet rather under than above the middle age. In
plain English a termagant Cook-Housekeeper; another
pretty present of mine to my Brother, the b who had
given me that commission and I was obliged to put up
with Hopson's choice having little time to choose. Her
tongue had made her the terror of all my Brothers
people English as well as Russians, and of none more
than old Benson, whose antipathy to her produced the
only exception my Brother found to her obsequiousness:
he would do any thing else but begged no commission
or orders might be given him that would oblige him to
communicate with her. My Brother used to rally him sometimes
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