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of the 4th Dragoons) and young Beckford of Font-hill, who
on the 28th of this month comes of age and gives a grand
fëte to all the world. The family consist only of Ld & Lady
P. Ld Herbert who is with his regiment, and Lady Charlotte
a little girl of 9 or 10 year old, who is at home.
It is odd enough that though he and she are by no means on
good terms, they should neither of them have a creature
with them. Ld P. is one of the best bred most intelligent
pleasantest fellows I ever saw met with in my life — they say he is
mad, but if his madness never shews itself in any other shapes
than it did then, I wish to God I could be mad too. He
talked with infinite vivacity and legeretè, saying many good
things and no foolish ones. I got a most exquisite lesson in
the art of small-talk from the breakfast conversation of
Ld S. and Lady P. (Ld P. being absent for near an hour)
They had been old cronies 20 or 25 years ago and had never
come across one another since — you may imagine what stories
they had to cop, and notes to compare. In those days Lord S. used

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Date_1	1781-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	209	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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