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and go from his House the last Day we were at Versailles, wch
occasion'd
us to lye
two nights from our appartment, & the next Morning
we had an Account brought us, that poor Nurse, whom we had
left well, had died suddenly wch affected us greatly as she was
a truly valuable woman in her Station, & whose assistance had
made our Journey very comfortable, for being a good Cook
we were enabled to keep House any much to our satisfaction.
but being deprived of her we cou'd not think of continuing any
longer at St Germaine, & therefore determined to remove hither
and to take an appartment at some public Hotel in Paris, where
we might be supplied from a Traiteur or Cook's Shop, as is very
common here — accordingly we went to St Germaine to order the good
woman's Burial & to fetch away our things, but on our return
to our Friend's here, with an Intent to look out for an appartment
He & his Family would not suffer us to do it & used so much
kind Importunity for us to continue with them that we cud
not resist so great a Temptation, by means of wch we are settled
at Paris probably for the whole time of our Stay, in a very
agreable Family, in one of the best Houses that any of the
Nobility have here & which for magnificence exceeds any
in London & Westminster; here we have been upon the of
guests above a fortnight, & my Friend & his family being just
gone to a Country House he has about twelve miles off, we
they wod have had us gone with them, but we chosing
to stay here, they have left us here in possession of their House
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Jeremiah Bentham |
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