Trip 412 of 4000 collection book16

The major has a numerous acquaintance of both sexes among others a first cousin of good fortune whobook17 with her daughters often cheer our solitude she is a very sensible ladylike gentlewoman and the young ladies have a certain degagee air that plainly shows they have seen the best company. The next is Sir Mungo Barebones the representative of a very ancient family in the north his affairs are very much deranged but he is a gentleman of great probity and learning and at present engaged in a very grand scheme which if he can bring it to bear will render him famous to all posterity no less than the conversion of the Jews and the Gentiles. A man of our heros politeness could not help expressing himself in the warmest terms of gratitude for this courteous declaration. Sir I have had the honour to serve his Majesty these twenty years and have been bandied about in the course of duty through all the British plantations and you see the recompense of all my service. You may amuse yourself with Shakespeare or Milton or Don Quixote or any of our modern authors that are worth reading such as the Adventures of Loveill Lady Frail George Edwards Joe Thompson Bampfylde Moore Carew Young Scarron and Miss Betsy Thoughtless and if you have a taste for drawing I can entertain you with a parcel of prints by the best masters.

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