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The Posthumous Works of Mrs Chapone Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
TO MR. RICHARDSON
Friday, Oct. 12, 1750
Your reproach, dear sir, of having so soon left you off as a correspondent, sits heavy upon my heart; and the more so, because you might reasonably have expected that I should have written to you from Hampton, as you so kindly desired. I came from thence but yesterday, and often wished, whilst I was there, for one half hour to myself, which I would have employed in writing to you. But it could not be ; the business there was to laugh, to sing, and to dance; and I was not allowed to be enough a rational creature to converse with Mr. Richardson. However, don't think me quite lost in dissipation: I am now returned home, and settled, I hope, for the winter; and returned with the same taste for reasonable pleasures that I went out with, and shall find the same delight in your conversation, whenever you will favour me with it, as I did when I was so happy at North-End. You must not deny me your company here the first day next week that you are at leisure, and we must then fix on some day for me to wait on your amiable friend Miss Highmore. I am sure you will not refuse to meet me there. Do, good sir, send me word when I may see you, and let it be on a day when your evening is unengaged.
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