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will be perhaps a principal object of our occupations.

Either we must contrive for me to get something at home,

or you must stay with me till we can manage for you

to be more at your ease at your return.

If you are acquainted with the Harris's and have an

opportunity of speaking with Lady Harris alone

do assure her that my not having written to her

is not from my having lost any high degree of regard

& cetera ... in short say as many civil things as

possible to her from me which I would fain say myself

but dare not as I know my writing to her would

displease her husband.

If Miss Gorman is with them I wish much

you could be acquainted with her She knows me well

and could tell you everything about me.

Miss Cozens also the eldest particularly knows a

great deal of me She & her sister live at Harris's.

I think I have pretty well got myself out of love again

and I now cant conceive that there are more than two women

in the whole Empire who could inspire me with any passion

beyond that of physical desire. These two are M rs Sik: of

whom I have told you enough and a cousin of her's a Miss

Glebow. whose father is a General in chief and whose mother who is now

dead was sister to Prince Dashkeff the father. She is of the

sweetest disposition, between 16 & 17. rich, pretty and of a character like

M rs Sik: I see her seldom and 'tis better I should not see her.

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22

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