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a similar notice of a part of the family
that was more agreable to me. To improve
the acquaintance, the two elder ladies took
occasion to insinuate that a compliment
of a para apiece to the two young folks
would not be unacceptable. I could not choose
as may well be imagined, but oblige them
at so cheap a rate: their fair sister, who
had not been comprised in the intimation,
by a similar compliment. Perhaps the insult
might have been forgiven; but it is no great wonder
I believe, that Peabit should act in such
a case before inflation had time to modify
it. I feared that a present suitable to the
age of the receiver and the fancy of the giver
might have been deemed an attempt to purchase.
I soon found by experience what
I might have surmised from reason, that
Bulgarian delicacy did not shew itself in that
shape. I strolled soon after into another
house where there was no gentleman, but more
ladies and more children. After I had gratified
my curiosity awhile by in the examination
of the apartment and its furniture, and maintained
a sort of conversation by a few scatter'd
words out by nods and smiles, I
was made to understand that these young
folks had as little objection to paras as
the others: the readiness with which this intimation
was complied with encouraged the
elderly ladies (for such they were) to take
off the mask; and I now found that the repetition<;b/> of injustice would be incurred, if
matrons

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Identifier: | JB/540/229/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1785-12-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Journal	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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