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again 1 I make no doubt that it will. I am sorry, how- 

 ever, that you have lost your money ; it is unpleasant. In 

 the meantime, what the devil signify the lefahle deparisor [?] 

 the nonsense of White's ! You may be sure they will be 

 glad you have lost your money ; not because they dislike 

 you, but because they like to laugh. They shall certainly 

 not have that pleasure from me, for I will even deny that 

 I know anything of it. 



As to your banker, I will call there to-morrow ; make 

 yourself easy about that, for I have three thousand pounds 

 now at Coutts'. There will be no bankruptcy, without we 

 both are ruined at the same time. You may be sure all 

 this will soon be known here, since everybody knows it at 

 Paris ; but if you come as soon as you intend, perhaps you 

 may be here first. All that signifies nothing ; the dis- 

 agreeable part is having lost your money; Almack's or 

 White's will bring all back again. 



How can you think, my dear George, and I hope you 

 do not think, that anybody, or anything, can make a 

 tracasserie between you and me 1 I take it ill that you 

 even talked about it, which you do in the letter I had by 

 Ligonier. I must be the poorest creature upon earth — 

 after having known you so long and always as the best 

 and sincerest friend that any one ever had — if any one 

 alive can make any impression upon me, when you are 

 concerned. I told you, in a letter I wrote some time ago, 

 that I depended more upon the continuance of our friend- 

 ship than anything else in the world, which I certainly 

 do, because I have so many reasons to know you, and I 

 am sure I know myself. 



