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or I shall not be satisfied. But first of all
Nannyshall bring in the dinner. Poor thing! – You will not
dine as you did yesterday, for wehave nothing but some fried beef. – How niceMary Edwards looks in her new peliſse! – Andnow tell me how you like them all, & whatI am to
say to Sam. I have begun my Letter,Jack Stokes is to call
for it tomorrow, for hisUncle is going within a mile of
Guilford onthe1 next day. —"friday or Saturday Nanny brought in the dinner;& was — "We will wait uponourselves, continued Eliz:Elizabeth & then we shall lose no time. – Andso, you
would not come home with Tom Mus::grave?" ––– "No. You had said so much againsthim that I could not wish either for
theobligation, or the Intimacy which the use of hissoon sent away. not detained to wait. his bringing Carriageme home must have created —. I should notevenhave liked the appearance of it. —" "You didvery right; tho’though I wonder at your forbearance,& I do not think I could have done
it myself. –He seemed so eager to fetch you, that I couldnot say no, tho’though it rather went against me tobe throwing you together, so well as I knew
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