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<p>unison & with accordant energy that one thing I was to<lb/> | |||
understand most <sic>compleatly</sic> and distinctly — that I must<lb/> | |||
content myself and be prepared to build upon the Salisbury<lb/> | |||
Estate itself, if no additional & more convenient spot,<lb/> | |||
contiguous to it, should be obtainable.</p> | |||
<p>What crowned the whole and have at once a complexion<lb/> | |||
of unprecedented practicability to the whole business<lb/> | |||
was — a sort of providential conspiracy of favourable<lb/> | |||
incidents, in virtue of which an absolute mathematical<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">minimum</hi> of trouble promised to suffice for the completion<lb/> | |||
of it. Not only the Marquis was willing to sell, but<lb/> | |||
what was more his Lordship's Agent (M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Estrourt the<lb/> | |||
<sic>Sollicitor</sic> to the Stamp office) was a gentleman with whom<lb/> | |||
M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Long (<hi rend="underline"><foreign>virtute officium</foreign></hi>) was under the frequently recurring<lb/> | |||
necessity of seeing about other business. His circumstance<lb/> | |||
was communicated to me by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Long and the<lb/> | |||
value of it was not lost upon me. If there could have<lb/> | |||
been any doubt of its importance in the first instance,<lb/> | |||
that doubt would have been pretty well removed by the<lb/> | |||
event. As the unavoidable business (whatever they were)<lb/> | |||
went on, the meetings unavoidably necessary to the carrying<lb/> | |||
it on, of course took place: but as to my business —<lb/> | |||
(which may all along be distinguished by the characteristic<lb/> | |||
name of the <hi rend="underline">optional</hi> business) I was never able to<lb/> | |||
flatter myself with the idea, that by any labour of mine,<lb/> | |||
strenuous and unremitting as it was, any addition was<lb/> | |||
ever made to the number of those meetings. If I may<lb/> | |||
anticipate for a moment — the day on which the business<lb/> | |||
was <sic>compleated</sic> (so far as it has hitherto been <sic>compleated</sic>)<lb/> | |||
was within a day or two of eleven months<lb/> | |||
posterior to the day on which it was thus opened to one.<lb/> | |||
Such was the fruit of the miracle wrought in my favour as<lb/> | |||
above: — where should I have been without the miracle?</p> | |||
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Narrative
Sect 1.
3 continued
unison & with accordant energy that one thing I was to
understand most compleatly and distinctly — that I must
content myself and be prepared to build upon the Salisbury
Estate itself, if no additional & more convenient spot,
contiguous to it, should be obtainable.
What crowned the whole and have at once a complexion
of unprecedented practicability to the whole business
was — a sort of providential conspiracy of favourable
incidents, in virtue of which an absolute mathematical
minimum of trouble promised to suffice for the completion
of it. Not only the Marquis was willing to sell, but
what was more his Lordship's Agent (Mr Estrourt the
Sollicitor to the Stamp office) was a gentleman with whom
Mr Long (virtute officium) was under the frequently recurring
necessity of seeing about other business. His circumstance
was communicated to me by Mr Long and the
value of it was not lost upon me. If there could have
been any doubt of its importance in the first instance,
that doubt would have been pretty well removed by the
event. As the unavoidable business (whatever they were)
went on, the meetings unavoidably necessary to the carrying
it on, of course took place: but as to my business —
(which may all along be distinguished by the characteristic
name of the optional business) I was never able to
flatter myself with the idea, that by any labour of mine,
strenuous and unremitting as it was, any addition was
ever made to the number of those meetings. If I may
anticipate for a moment — the day on which the business
was compleated (so far as it has hitherto been compleated)
was within a day or two of eleven months
posterior to the day on which it was thus opened to one.
Such was the fruit of the miracle wrought in my favour as
above: — where should I have been without the miracle?
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