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 to disappoint you so often, gives me much uneasiness. I do assure you, sir, that I am not so ungrateful as my conduct has given you reason to believe. From the state of my accounts you will find, that the greatest part of my property is in the hands of country dealers, who, although they seldom fail, yet their times of payment are very precarious and uncertain. However, to convince you of my integrity, I have sent by this day’s post, an order for seventy pounds, and the next week you shall receive one much larger. The remainder shall be sent in a very short time. I am determined for the future, to make the rules laid down in your excellent letter, a guide in my dealings with those people whose dilatoriness in making good their payments to me, obliged me to diappoint you; and to convince you farther of my integrity, the goods which I order, till the old account is paid off, shall be ready money. I doubt not but you will continue to treat me with the same good usage as formerly, and believe me to be unfeignedly,—Your obliged humble servant.

Dear sir,—I believe that since you first knew me, you will be ready to acknowledge, that no person was ever more bashful in asking favours than myself. But an unexpected affliction in my family, obliges me to solicit your assistance, by the loan of about forty pounds for six months, if you can spare it without hurting yourself. I would not have asked it at all, were I not certain of paying; it at the time proposed,—I am, sir, yours with the greatest sincerity.

Dear sir,—I could not hesitate one moment in