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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> M. de Luze our companion says that she passes for wicked and quarrelsome and tattling and is thought to be the chief cause of his quitting Neufchatel. He himself owns her to be so dull that she never knows in what year of the Lord she is nor in what month of the year nor in what day of the month or week; and that she can never learn the different value of the pieces of money in any country. Yet she governs him as abso-lutely as a nurse does a child. In her absence his dog has acquired that ascendant. His affection for that creature is beyond all expression or conception. I have as yet scarce seen anybody except Mr Conway and Lady Aylesbury. Both of them told me they would visit Jean-Jacques if I thought their company would not be disagreeable. I encouraged them to show him that mark of distinction. Here I must also tell you of a good action which I did; not but that it is better to conceal our good actions. But I consider not my seek-ing your approbation as an effect of vanity: your suffrage is to me something like the satisfaction of my own conscience. While we were at Calais I asked him whether in case the King of England thought proper to gratify him with a pension he would accept of it. I told him that the case was widely different from that of the King of Prussia; and I endeavoured to point out to him the difference particularly in this circumstance that a gratuity from the King of England could never in the least endanger his independence. He replied: ‘But would it not be using ill the King of Prussia to whom I have since been much obliged? However on this head’ added he ‘in case the offer be made me. (SP)