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Tuesday, Sept. 26 / Fate, I believe, in my conscience, spins threads for tragedies, on purpose for thee to weave with.
-- Thy Watford uncle, poor Belton, the fair inimitable, (exalted creature! and is she to be found in such a list! ) the accursed woman, and Tomlinson, seemed to have been all doomed to give thee a theme for the dismal and the horrible; -- and, by my soul, thou dost work it going, as Lord M. would phrase it.