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the D. of G. [Grafton] can mean to deal hardly by you. 

 He can have no motive for so doing, but on the contrary, 

 I am sure his inclinations must be to show you favour. I 

 think, therefore, that you see all that business with a great 

 deal too much warmth and quite in a wrong light, and I 

 am persuaded it will end well. The chaise is ready. I 

 shall add a word or two when 1 come to London. 



Past seven : just going to Lady Harrington's. I go to- 

 morrow morning to examine the house ; I am sure I shall 

 look at it Avith more pleasure than I have ever done before. 

 I want to see how long it will be before you can get into it. 

 It is a charming house : how everybody will hate you for 

 having got it ! Adieu ! my dear George, I have lost my 

 money, but that is nothing ; I shall win some other time. 

 Pray do not plague yourself about imaginary evils. It is time 

 enough when they really happen. Good-bye to you. . . , 



APPENDIX B2. 



Wakefield, Friday Morning. 



On Wednesday morning we had a party to see Wanstead. 

 We dined at the Spread Eagle upon the Forest, and at our 

 return home, between eight and nine, Ave saw a most 

 violent fire which had just broken out in Marylebone 

 Street, at the upper end of the Haymarket. It lasted till 

 one in the morning, and has burnt a great many houses. 

 I never saAV anything so violent, and the croAvd of people in 

 the streets all round was beyond conception. The fire 



