To Mary Berry (1795) [ Practices ]
… so little to say, that I had better make my alphabet as tall as Jerningham's, tho' I have not his happy facility of making every sentence a double entendre. Mercy on us if he and S. were to correspond! They would have occasion, to use an … than they would have been by coldness at first.' You will bear me witness that I did not sniff up the Countess's incense kindly the first time it was offered to me. … "In our village I suppose I am thought grown very sociable, unless they …
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