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confidential statement from Mr. Francis. this grand is, that I ought to have
Known that what he waid
me
fidential. On the contrary, always feets safe in repeating what is said by a Camper or a Froder, for if it were
a
professional secret
they would not utter it. Notwithstovining,
I did
guard what Mr. Prancis had said, at a time when the whole
Cansunity latted of noching du
than the Kwott
A
Sing affair,
lib
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matters took a tum that made it
aw
mcumbent duty to mention it,
tvere
no matter how the information acquired. I kept Mr Prancis' secret; not that I thought it of importance,
but simply lost repeating it shartd mischief and dissension.
matie
11.
Mr. Francis, on my admission
that I did mention the
the sa
a not
mention the matter to
evening,
has built up
flattering picture of
a)
gossipiping busybody, with piew of
burning at the and
MALLAS
mae
his longue, of
!
ingenious than trustful I
should have been more corrent
first letter to
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had I said
that in the warmth of
with
my
Corvvero A
tion
"You, Mr. Rerforll being within
Russell carshot, but whether hearing
I do not know, I.
or not
was inadvertent
enough to allude to what I had
heard
aw
allusion which it seems