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be very little wanted. Coventry is not in town. I 

 suppose he waits to see the turn that things are likely to 

 take ; so much so that I am persuaded he will be more 

 attached to his old friend Pitt than ever. Farewell ! my 

 dear George ; I have only time to add that I am always, 

 — Very affectionately yours, 



M. AND E. 



APPENDIX X. 



nth November 1766. 

 My dear GeoPvGE, — The muff you sent me by the 

 Duke of Richmond I like prodigiously ; vastly better than 

 if it had been tigr^, or of any glaring colour : several are 

 now making after it. I send you by this post full direc- 

 tions about all my commissions, as I quite despair of 

 coming to you. I wish I had set out immediately after 

 Newmarket, which I believe I should have done if I had not 

 taken a violent fancy for one of the opera-girls.^ This 

 passion is a little abated, and I hope it will be quite so 

 before you and the Eena come over, else I fear it will 

 interrupt our society. But whatever is the case, as I have 

 a real friendship and affection for the Eena, I shall show 

 her every mark of regard and consideration, and be vastly 

 happy to see her. I consider her as a friend, and certainly 

 as one that I love very much, and as such I hope she will 

 have some indulgence for my follies. A contrary behaviour 

 will only separate us entirely, which I should be sorry for, 

 and upon the footing that we have lived for some time 

 ^ The Zamparini. 



