VIII

ever will be! had that trial been for thee, and it was fifty to one but it had,⁠⸺⁠thy affairs had not been so depress’d⁠—(at least by the depression of thy nose) as they have been; nor had the fortunes of thy house and the occasions of making them, which have so often presented themselves in the course of thy life, to thee, been so often, so vexatiously, so tamely, so irrecoverably abandoned⁠—as thou hast been forced to leave them;⁠⸺⁠but ’tis over,⁠⸺⁠all but the account of ’em, which cannot be given to the curious till I am got out into the world.