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behave better, or die with more courage. He prayed very 

 earnestly, that is true, but that was in his profession. Storer 

 was there, and has promised to send you an account of 

 what happened. He had three clergymen with him on the 

 coach. Carlisle has won since you went, but not much. 

 This place is very full every night, and constant play. I 

 am glad to hear that Mie-Mie is so well. I am just going 

 to Kanelagh. — Yours very sincerely, 



March and E. 



APPENDIX E2. 



Newmarket, 

 Wednesday, ^th July 1777. 



My dear George, — I had your melancholy letter 

 yesterday. It is the greatest concern in the world to find 

 you so very unhappy, and not to have the least hopes of 

 doing you any service. To be sure I will write to 

 Madame Fagniani, or do anything else that you desire. 

 After all that has been said, what to say I don't know, or 

 what hopes to hold out to you, when all that can be done 

 has already been tried. I am sure, say or do what I will, 

 she will be persuaded it can only be to please you that I 

 write or mention the subject, after so much conversation 

 as I have had with her upon it when she was here, and her 

 having so often repeated to me the impossibility, whatever 

 their own dispositions were, on account of their family. 



I am in waiting next week, and shall be in town Sunday 

 or Monday. I wish I could say or do anything to give 

 you comfort, or show you any mark of that affection and 



