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of the house at night as it were by stealth. When they had been
a whole night at his friend that Dr', then he was ready
to have them searched by any honest man; by which,
as he declared, he meant to exclude every one of the
English here. My Brother, you will observe, all this while
on his journey. I, three miles off at Zadobras. But from the reports
made me, I expected for some time I should have had any life to defend
against a man to
whom I had never given
the shadow of an offence.
for some day, he persisted in declaring his resolu-
-tions of following my Brother to Cherson: but as his
fair friend was bound for Priga, it was prophecicd' that
that retraction would prevail, and so it proved. He set
off with her about ten days after my Brothers' depar-
-ture.
You will observe that in his first letter though full of ill
humor and much there he does not so much as pre-
-tend any cause of complaint against my Brother. No
more has he ever, an word of mouth. His only grievance
was as you will see, an expression charged upon me, and which I have
a notion did once fall from me amongst many more
expressions of regard in speaking of him to his friend
the Dr. If I do not misrecollect, it a pretty exact
copy of an expression of yours' applied to the same
subject. He had taken care, however, before he wrote
that letter to tutor the fullest vengeance which his tongue
would enable him to tutor of any injuries he might have
received. He told the English ha gave the people here to un-
-derstand in the worst express terms that my Brothers'
affairs were in a bankrupt state, advising them to
lock to themselves and get what they could of him as
fast as possible: he go and my Brother found that
he had given similar account to all his friends to
whom his recommendations and countenance had procured him access.
The cloth you find alluded to was some cloth to the amount of which
my Brother hat got over from England upon his credit
in the view of putting a little money into Benson's pocket, and if
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