★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
Auto loaded |
No edit summary |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
<!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- ENTER TRANSCRIPTION BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
' | <p>I went up to her, "hoped she would <sic>permitt</sic> me to welcome her | ||
<lb/> | |||
<sic>"</sic>back again to that country", and summoned up courage enough to | |||
<lb/> | |||
<unclear>take</unclear> a transient salute. After Miss S. went in<del>t</del> to them, the Ladies | |||
<lb/> | |||
<sic>staid</sic> a matter of half an hour longer. When they were gone, | |||
<lb/> | |||
after a little chit-chat in which no mention was made <unclear>of</unclear> my | |||
<lb/> | |||
letters, the topic of Music came upon the carpet. I then took | |||
<lb/> | |||
occasion to observe that a note or two in the Harpsichord was | |||
<lb/> | |||
out of tune, and asked for a key to tune it with: Miss S. | |||
<lb/> | |||
went out to make enquiries, and presently in came the man | |||
<lb/> | |||
with a key and <del>with</del> the fiddle into the bargain: That I thought | |||
<lb/> | |||
looked well: but whether it was Miss S's orders to bring the | |||
<lb/> | |||
fiddle, or whether it was <add>only</add> his own thought I could not be quite | |||
<lb/> | |||
certain. However that might be I then thought myself sufficiently | |||
<lb/> | |||
authorized to propose a tune. We had been playing about | |||
<lb/> | |||
20 minutes when M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> B. went out as we were in the middle | |||
<lb/> | |||
of her tune, to try on a new gown as I found afterward<unclear>s</unclear>: telling | |||
<lb/> | |||
her daughter she should not be long. She did stay however, | |||
<lb/> | |||
I suppose an hour: but unluckily she had not been | |||
<lb/> | |||
5 minutes gone, (and we were still in our tune) when in | |||
<lb/> | |||
came M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Rose. He <sic>staid</sic> an unconscionable long time: till | |||
<lb/> | |||
past two, owing partly to a mistake of the servants who desired | |||
<lb/> | |||
him as on the part of M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> B. to stay till she came | |||
<lb/> | |||
down</p> | |||
<!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
{{Metadata:{{PAGENAME}}}} | {{Metadata:{{PAGENAME}}}}{{Completed}} | ||
I went up to her, "hoped she would permitt me to welcome her
"back again to that country", and summoned up courage enough to
take a transient salute. After Miss S. went int to them, the Ladies
staid a matter of half an hour longer. When they were gone,
after a little chit-chat in which no mention was made of my
letters, the topic of Music came upon the carpet. I then took
occasion to observe that a note or two in the Harpsichord was
out of tune, and asked for a key to tune it with: Miss S.
went out to make enquiries, and presently in came the man
with a key and with the fiddle into the bargain: That I thought
looked well: but whether it was Miss S's orders to bring the
fiddle, or whether it was only his own thought I could not be quite
certain. However that might be I then thought myself sufficiently
authorized to propose a tune. We had been playing about
20 minutes when Mrs B. went out as we were in the middle
of her tune, to try on a new gown as I found afterwards: telling
her daughter she should not be long. She did stay however,
I suppose an hour: but unluckily she had not been
5 minutes gone, (and we were still in our tune) when in
came Mr Rose. He staid an unconscionable long time: till
past two, owing partly to a mistake of the servants who desired
him as on the part of Mrs B. to stay till she came
down
|
Identifier: | JB/538/055/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1776-09-06 |
|||
|
538 |
|||
|
055 |
|||
|
001 |
|||
|
Correspondence |
|||
|
Jeremy Bentham; Samuel Bentham |
|||
