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Rh I want you to visit me as a friend, and stay a long time. There is nobody with me, as I told you before, but Sir Thomas and old Lady Ashby; but you needn't mind them—they'll trouble us but little with their company; and you shall have a room to yourself, whenever you like to retire to it, and plenty of books to read when my company is not sufficiently amusing. I forget whether you like babies; if you do, you may have the pleasure of seeing minethe most charming child in the world, no doubtand all the more so, that I am not troubled with nursing it—I was determined I wouldn't be bothered with that—Unfortunately it is a girl, and Sir Thomas has never forgiven me; but however, if you will only come, I promise you shall be its governess as soon as it can speak, and you shall bring it up in the way it should go, and make a better woman of it than its mamma;—and you shall see my poodle too, a splendid little charmer imported from Paris, and two fine Italian paintings of great valueI forget the artistdoubtless you will be able to discover prodigious beauties in them, which you must point out to me, as I only admire by hearsay;and many elegant curiosities besides, which I

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