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know when of "throwing myself at" my adorable M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> | know when of "throwing myself at" my adorable M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> | ||
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Wise's "feet"! well — I must bear | Wise's "feet"! well — I must bear the mortification as well | ||
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as I can, and <add>like S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Anthony <unclear>Branville</unclear> in the Discovery</add> "defer that happiness to another opportunity". | |||
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However I have got her name, written in her | |||
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own fair hand: that is <sic>somthing</sic>. I shall not fail to consult | |||
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those who are learned in these matters, and to imprint | |||
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<add>on it</add> as many kisses as shall be deemed suitable to the occasion. | |||
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But this "desperate fellow of a husband"? I shudder at the very | |||
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<sic>thoughts</sic> of him: you know we pretty fellows have a mortal | |||
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antipathy to those desperate fellows. You have heard by | |||
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this time of my having got a <sic>glympse</sic> | |||
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How it mortifies me my dear Sam, that I can not
make one in your happy circle!- and what is more, how
it shames me to think of my having neglected thus long
to answer Mrs Davies's obliging invitation! That I
must forgo too the only opportunity I may have till I don't
know when of "throwing myself at" my adorable Mrs
Wise's "feet"! well — I must bear the mortification as well
as I can, and like Sr Anthony Branville in the Discovery "defer that happiness to another opportunity".
However I have got her name, written in her
own fair hand: that is somthing. I shall not fail to consult
those who are learned in these matters, and to imprint
on it as many kisses as shall be deemed suitable to the occasion.
But this "desperate fellow of a husband"? I shudder at the very
thoughts of him: you know we pretty fellows have a mortal
antipathy to those desperate fellows. You have heard by
this time of my having got a glympse
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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