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play with fire! Alas how cruelly have you unclear>twisted</unclear><lb/> | play with fire! Alas how cruelly have you unclear>twisted</unclear><lb/> | ||
with my flame!</p> | with my flame!</p> | ||
<note>I have proof of it in black and white</note><p>I hope I should have had more prudence and<lb/> | <note>I have proof of it in black and white</note> | ||
<p>I hope I should have had more prudence and<lb/> | |||
<unclear>philosophy</unclear>; and yet it's ten to one but what if<lb/> Miss L.<add>kind</add> <add>ingeniously</add>had not prevented me, I should have<lb/> | <unclear>philosophy</unclear>; and yet it's ten to one but what if<lb/> Miss L.<add>kind</add> <add>ingeniously</add>had not prevented me, I should have<lb/> | ||
sallied forth upon the enquiry. I'll tell you what<lb/> | sallied forth upon the enquiry. I'll tell you what<lb/> | ||
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<del>near, that could</del> At a Miss Ward's <add>a Milliner's</add> she says in her<lb/> | <del>near, that could</del> At a Miss Ward's <add>a Milliner's</add> she says in her<lb/> | ||
letter to me. Let it be only <hi rend='underline'>near:</hi> that can hardly<lb/> | letter to me. Let it be only <hi rend='underline'>near:</hi> that can hardly<lb/> | ||
mean <del>a greater distance</del> <add>further off</add> than half a mile. Well then<lb/>to find out this M<hi rend='superscript'> | mean <del>a greater distance</del> <add>further off</add> than half a mile. Well then<lb/>to find out this M<hi rend='superscript'>rs</hi> Ward, what should I have done<lb/> | ||
I should have taken out my map of London, & my compass, and setting one foot in Lincoln's Inn I should<lb/> | I should have taken out my map of London, & my compass,<lb/> | ||
and setting one foot in Lincoln's Inn I should<lb/> | |||
have swept a arch, with a radius answering to half a<lb/> | have swept a arch, with a radius answering to half a<lb/> | ||
mile -<del> W</del> Within that circle I should have - your<lb/> | mile -<del> W</del> Within that circle I should have - your<lb/> | ||
putting in<add> pirking in</add> my pretty face into all the Milliners<lb/> | putting in<add> pirking in</add> my pretty face <add>high and low</add> into all the Milliners<lb/> | ||
Shop's in town <del><add>to <gap/> for his</add></del> <add>I could get scent of.</add> What a deal of execution I should<lb/> | |||
have done on my way! It's well for the Milliner's Girls<lb/> | |||
M<hi rend='superscript'>rs</hi> Ward turned out so soon to be a non-entity. What an<lb/> | |||
escape too has the public had - what a loss there would have been<lb/> | |||
of a time so valuable to it as <gap/> must needs be?</p> | |||
Well there is no truth in woman say I, as a man
says of course when he fancies he has found one thats
false. one such however I have found enough.
its nothing more than fancy. Alas!Miss Lotty! Miss Lotty, what will become
of you Have you forgot already what your woman
I am sure has told you many's the good time and oft of the fate of thoselittle misseswho
play with fire! Alas how cruelly have you unclear>twisted</unclear>
with my flame!
I have proof of it in black and white
I hope I should have had more prudence and
philosophy; and yet it's ten to one but what if
Miss L.kind ingeniouslyhad not prevented me, I should have
sallied forth upon the enquiry. I'll tell you what
I should have done—I did something likethis as I was sayingI cast upon
a much less occasion and afterwards I will tell you that true.
There was a Frenchman merchant who had shewn me
some civilities abroad. He was to come to England
some time afterward. I asked him, and he promised
to come and see me. He called but as I
happened not to be at home - he left me his address
thinking it sufficient to mention such a house
in Bell Alley. As it happens, there are 6
and twenty. Bell Alleys in and about London; I
found their namesdirec in the London Directory, and to get
a line conveyed to him, that he might not think delighted
him I could think of no other expedient than sending
a Penny Post letter to each every one of these places.
One of my Letters accordingly found him out
Near or very near or just by Lincoln's Inn" and Miss I am not sure
which but I should have looked again before I had
done any thing! said Miss Lotty in her letter to Ms Lind. supposing it only
near, that could At a Miss Ward's a Milliner's she says in her
letter to me. Let it be only near: that can hardly
mean a greater distance further off than half a mile. Well then
to find out this Mrs Ward, what should I have done
I should have taken out my map of London, & my compass,
and setting one foot in Lincoln's Inn I should
have swept a arch, with a radius answering to half a
mile - W Within that circle I should have - your
putting in pirking in my pretty face high and low into all the Milliners
Shop's in town to for his I could get scent of. What a deal of execution I should
have done on my way! It's well for the Milliner's Girls
Mrs Ward turned out so soon to be a non-entity. What an
escape too has the public had - what a loss there would have been
of a time so valuable to it as must needs be?
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