"I should affront your penetration did I not suppose you now
see the drift of this letter. It is to appropriate to
another use the sum with which you destined to bring me into
Parliament; to employ it, not in making me great, but in
rendering me happy. I have often heard you say yourself that
the allowance you had been so indulgent as to grant me,
though very liberal in regard to your estate, was yet but
small when compared with the almost necessary extravagances
of the age. I have indeed found it so, notwithstanding a
good deal of economy, and an exemption from many of the
common expenses of youth. This, dear sir, would be a way of
supplying these deficiencies without any additional expense
to you. But I forbear--if you think my proposals reasonable,
you want no intreaties to engage you to comply with them, if
otherwise all will be without effect.
"All that I am afraid of, dear sir, is that I should seem
not so much asking a favour, as this really is, as exacting
a debt. After all I can say, you will remain the best judge
of my good and your own circumstances.
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