Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… Pepys (who had contracts to award) and he noted that it ‘did so cheer my hear that I could eat no victuals almost for dinner for joy’; but he was also uneasy about receiving what could easily be seen as a bribe and even closed his eyes …
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