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of my waiving the Ceremony of leaving a card at yr. house
on my departure, with a much larger share of
imperfection than most of my neighbours, I fear that it often
falls to my lot to offend where no offence is intended; I
can however lay my hand on my heart and truly say
that, I have never willingly allowed my failings to trifle with
the feelings or wound the honest pride of any Soul
living: It is not in my Nature to do so, if even I
possessed that greatness of intellect and abstraction of thought,
which, according to Lord Chesterfield, can alone palliate gratify
eccentricity and weakness.
I went to England after an absence of several months,
with a view of publishing the more mature result of my
journey to Spain. Circumstances which it is needless to
explain, rendered it necessary that I should enter into an
negotiation with certain booksellers for the publication of my
book, when however I found that, I could neither obtain support
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from them or sympathy from others, of whose qualities of
of the
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