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Having the honour to be known to a gentleman who was intimate
with an old crony if the first cousin of a particular friend of the
mistress of the head footman in the family of the great man on whom such
graces depended, I had the good fortune to be able to make interest
once, and get admission, for a few minutes, into that celebrated
academy. I speak not out of vanity; still less out of a desire to censure,
when in truth there is no ground for it. The care is, as you cannot but
perceive, that, without some such arrangements as above to prevent the
pupils being at home to every body, no such Academy ever could have
been carried on. I had not, to be sure, as it happened, any friend there
at the time, to whom I wished to get an holiday: but how could the
master have known that, if I had not been fortunate enough to have formed
the chain of connections which recommended me to his confidence? You
saw, in my pamphlet, what I said on the subject at the time. A worthy
friend of mine, whom I need not mention to you, took me to task for
speaking so favourably. He had tasted the bread, and found it mouldy,
and I don't know what besides, which I have forgot. I told him
what was very true, that at the time that I published I knew nothing
of these complaints, and that what I said was the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as far as it then appeared
to me. I had no magic ring for making prison-doors fly open. The
master had had a week's notice. I had neither authority nor experience,
to examine and cross examine. The place was clean; the
people more so than could be expected. The master treated me with great
civility, and some very good bread, which he assured one was his
pupils' fare, and which I edified upon as such, seeing no reason to
to suspect the contrary.
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