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' | <p>Yesterday I went to <unclear>Boulter's</unclear> and bespoke 6 boxes for my | ||
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papers. Length 13 — breadth 8¼ — depth 6. He promises | |||
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I shall have the latter end of next week.</p> | |||
<p>How fares it with contra-ordinate proportion? Has | |||
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Pownoll's nonsense <unclear>put</unclear> it entirely to a stand?</p> | |||
<p>I congratulate you on your change of habitation — tell | |||
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me when it is to take place. I am obliged to M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> D. | |||
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for her invitation: but I see no great probability of my visiting | |||
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Chatham very soon. I must confess I do not feel any | |||
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violent propensity to go to a place where there seems to be a | |||
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determination to force a conversation upon a subject in which | |||
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I alone am, if any person is, interested, and on which it is | |||
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thought I choose not to converse. My silence and your silence | |||
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after her repeated importunities might I should have | |||
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thought have satisfied her that either I had no such plan | |||
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on foot, or that if I had I did not choose to communicate | |||
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with her on the subject. I suppose you have told her <sic>ere</sic> | |||
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this, what you know to be the case, that so far from being | |||
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jealous of young Forbes, I can have no possible objection to his | |||
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marrying any person that he and I are acquainted with. But | |||
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though this is now the case with respect to him, it may not | |||
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always be so with respect to every body: and if <del>I do not put</del> | |||
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a stop is not put to these sort of interrogatories in the first | |||
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instance, I can never engage in any plan of that sort, without | |||
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giving an account of myself to her: and furnishing a | |||
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topic of conversation to the whole circle of her acquaintance. It | |||
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is probable enough that if there had been any thing of that | |||
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sort upon the carpet, and I had been <hi rend="underline">left at liberty</hi> I | |||
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might of my own accord have talked with her on the subject, | |||
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but I think it is somewhat singular if I am not to choose whether | |||
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I will or no. As to any thing <add>more</add> about Forbes, you may | |||
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imagine I do not wish you to fill up your paper with it: & | |||
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I suppose your curiosity respecting a person so little known to us | |||
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both is not strong enough to induce you to give her much</p> | |||
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Yesterday I went to Boulter's and bespoke 6 boxes for my
papers. Length 13 — breadth 8¼ — depth 6. He promises
I shall have the latter end of next week.
How fares it with contra-ordinate proportion? Has
Pownoll's nonsense put it entirely to a stand?
I congratulate you on your change of habitation — tell
me when it is to take place. I am obliged to Mrs D.
for her invitation: but I see no great probability of my visiting
Chatham very soon. I must confess I do not feel any
violent propensity to go to a place where there seems to be a
determination to force a conversation upon a subject in which
I alone am, if any person is, interested, and on which it is
thought I choose not to converse. My silence and your silence
after her repeated importunities might I should have
thought have satisfied her that either I had no such plan
on foot, or that if I had I did not choose to communicate
with her on the subject. I suppose you have told her ere
this, what you know to be the case, that so far from being
jealous of young Forbes, I can have no possible objection to his
marrying any person that he and I are acquainted with. But
though this is now the case with respect to him, it may not
always be so with respect to every body: and if I do not put
a stop is not put to these sort of interrogatories in the first
instance, I can never engage in any plan of that sort, without
giving an account of myself to her: and furnishing a
topic of conversation to the whole circle of her acquaintance. It
is probable enough that if there had been any thing of that
sort upon the carpet, and I had been left at liberty I
might of my own accord have talked with her on the subject,
but I think it is somewhat singular if I am not to choose whether
I will or no. As to any thing more about Forbes, you may
imagine I do not wish you to fill up your paper with it: &
I suppose your curiosity respecting a person so little known to us
both is not strong enough to induce you to give her much
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Jeremy Bentham |
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