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>» - v . > . . ¦¦¦ - ¦ > ¦ tions and behaved in the genteelest man' iict ? possible . ' About forty pairs of eyes iftfefre full upon me ; I look'd sometimes tlowh , sonketimes at the window before me . Thert the ljuke * aid , If you please
jtyldn * . to -withdraw , but not to go ; then I made them alt one low curtsey , looking at them aH round , beginning at the IDuke . In half * an hour my name sounded three times and I went in again ; the Dake toid me I was elected : I made
another curtsey , and thanked the honourable society for the favour they had clone me , and said I should make rt my chief study to deserve their favour and protection . 'Then I was desired to stund "by the secretary to hear my orders read ; then I said I should endeavour to perform every thing- there specified ; then
the Duke gave me another charge extempore : then another curtsey , and I walk'd to the next room to stay ' till the governors went off , to give them a passing- curtsey , and to talk to the secretary . Air . P . told me to day several gentle * nsen said Idid not look more tl ^ an forty ; that was the 'age they cho-e , and what Dr . A . under the ro . > e chose to be
inserted in the petition : so it hit off Very well , for they had agreed to admit no one that was fifty or very near it . The petition was signed by abbut sixteen men of , character and Jashion . Fortescue offer'd to sign it , but my friends thought it better not . I had two certificates , one from Dr . Oliver another from I , d .
Portescue , of my upright sober behaviour , and skill and diligence in what I undertook . All was read before me to the committee ; I happen ed to be fitted for that day ' s business , which was a kind providence to me : if it had come on a month before , I could not have attended , so must have lost it . What a scene of
action I ^ m entering on , and set up to view by all the nation ; now J have fifty notes to leave , one at every hou . se , hy way pf thanks , Mrs . Brooks I believe , jarxii Mrs . Came will go with me for tfiree days to leave them . I can ' t bear a hackney coach with my lame arm , it iVQtfld , . shake it too much . There are
three , or four notable ladies have promised to , a ^ s / st rpe in the plan of my charge tq njak . e ic the easier , for now every thing is rude , and no form , but a chaos . 33 y rhe Almighty ' s assistance and his creatures , X bope tQ be * equivalent tg so great an undertaking , t"bu may be sure I ana full of fears , and distrust of mv akj _ If tics i * l am told I itce < J not "fearitl it a
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kind in rhem to say so , But it can ' t h & rooted © ut I doubt not of aty yours being pleas'd and thankful foj ' nietnjfc 1 am like to have what I ca ^ h / t subsist without . I have only time to say that I am all , Your much obliged bumble servant , ? M . SHEPPARb . If possible will see you soon .
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Letter VIII . ' To Mrs . Sat / . si Fragment * M 7 DEAR M-RS . SAY , 1 promised to write to you before a month was expired , which is to-morrow . I find myself much refreshed and enliven'd for these two weeks past . f was in an ill state of health when first I came , and that week I Jcnew not what to del
with myself , I was so full of disorders , and the week after I was seized with such a severe fit of the cholic , that I don ' t remember I ever had one so bad . I was told I was a little time insensible , and that they poured in as they could camomile tea , which in , a little time did me great service in abating the pain , and
by repeating it removed it . I fake these last indispositions to proceed entirely from the rufRe and fatigue m , y body and mind suffered from the Hospital , which I hope have now subsided . The cares and concern about it before , for a long time , and the pains I took and was taking ' , and the hurry and confusion when
enter ' d on it , and believing their scheme from the first which took effect , it h beyond expression what I went through ; I think I perform * d next to a miracle , but 1 knew the nature of my constitution , that it would work aftervvards , that I was almost I think , incapable of taking comfort , tho * I had so much reason for it soon after I was removed . 'Ti »
true I had sense enough to say and think at times that I was fuliof gratitude tdmy heavenly Benefactor for being the cause of so many earthly ones , 4 ) ut 1 ^; think now I have better health 1 have a better ^ sense of this kind' Providence # <» me , which will a little defend me from an illnatured wicked world ; at least vl shall be the better ' able it * bear it . Mrs . Came
wrote melately that ' t h£ r « e" were two more added to my number , whiclimiakef it as I understand ^ pVm : but Js / lr . P . alias B . S . I'h ' ear'tfot oi > e fcfllabk * concerning that . A lady * $ aid to me a little be ! foy l caWe . rtiat !& taste plain , lse prcr fefttdfiis 1 VL Tttitfoi-e Wit chantctei ^ r re' . . ' ¦¦ •¦ .. T o . a i . ^ ft Lv
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M ¦ / ¦ 732 77 e Say Papers . —Original Letters of Mrs * . Sheppard 1 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/26/
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