170 L Dear Chief Justice.
and was given the Care
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In reply to your note of yesterday I regret to say it is not in my power to give any satisfactory answer to the question you put to me as to whether I saw anything in your manner or conduct at the dinner party at
The Governor's on the 13th instant. To the best of my recollection I never saw you but on your first entering this Drawing Room and then passed into Dinner! I sat on the same side with you
given the care of a Spanish Officer, who spoke little English in absence my attention and I could not have seen you at the table without inconveniently stretching over and at the time I was aware of nothing to excite attention. when we rose from the table the wine had only passed twice and the Ladies had just withdrawn. I crossed to the other side and followed the crowd out, before I reached the upper end you and nearly all the guests had left the room retired to the Drawing Room with Most ...
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