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' | <p>Petersburg May 30<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1783.</p> | ||
<p>It is not five weeks since I dispatched my last and no doubt <lb/>most interesting letter to you. The same reason which had<lb/> made me delay writing to you for long till that time, here<lb/> prevented my being able to give any further account of myself<lb/> till now. A short time, Sir, after <del>that</del> <add>the</add> last news I gave <lb/> you, my love affair <del><gap/></del> came to a kind of crisis. The whole<lb/> town seemed to talk of nothing else for a fortnight and I <lb/> had at least the satisfaction to hear from all quarters that<lb/> my conduct throughout had met with universal approbation.<lb/> The girl's friends themselves particularly the one I write to<lb/> on the occasion have <sic>shewn</sic> that they were no cause of<lb/> complaint against us. Upon my intimating to Sir J.H.<lb/> my uneasiness at having written to you, Sir, on the subject<lb/> when everything was at the highest degree of uncertainty, <lb/> he was so kind as to offer to write to you himself<lb/> about it; <del><gap/></del> but thought it better to wait a post <lb/> or two in expectation of some better grounds to judge<lb/> in of the event. From time to time it has been put<lb/> off till about a week ago when he sent you a letter<lb/> which I presume, Sir, you must now have received.<lb/> I know not what he wrote, but as I am satisfied he</p> | |||
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Petersburg May 30th 1783.
It is not five weeks since I dispatched my last and no doubt
most interesting letter to you. The same reason which had
made me delay writing to you for long till that time, here
prevented my being able to give any further account of myself
till now. A short time, Sir, after that the last news I gave
you, my love affair came to a kind of crisis. The whole
town seemed to talk of nothing else for a fortnight and I
had at least the satisfaction to hear from all quarters that
my conduct throughout had met with universal approbation.
The girl's friends themselves particularly the one I write to
on the occasion have shewn that they were no cause of
complaint against us. Upon my intimating to Sir J.H.
my uneasiness at having written to you, Sir, on the subject
when everything was at the highest degree of uncertainty,
he was so kind as to offer to write to you himself
about it; but thought it better to wait a post
or two in expectation of some better grounds to judge
in of the event. From time to time it has been put
off till about a week ago when he sent you a letter
which I presume, Sir, you must now have received.
I know not what he wrote, but as I am satisfied he
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Jeremy Bentham |
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