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(TRANSCRIBED: original entry by Charles James Fox)
It's not as though they're worth much, at any rate - most of the better pieces were sold off after my brother died - but the books will fetch you even less, so keep your rapacious hands off them for just a short time longer, will you? You know, of course, that I'm running the faro bank now at Brooks's - it's only a matter of time before I'm able to pay you in full.
Yes, I know that I told you the same thing when I owned the race horse. He could run very fast indeed, I'll have you know - he simply did not choose to do so.
Oh, take what you will - cart it all off, it doesn't signify. This discussion's long since past being enjoyable. I can always stay with Mrs. Robinson, I suppose, until I get back into Government ..... though I've noticed that Mrs. Armistead's returned to London. Not that I could afford to pay for her favours, but if she's been kind to the impecunious Prince of Wales, perhaps she'll be as much so to a future Secretary of State. After all, I may not glitter at the moment, but the prospects remain.
I suppose I should rescue Burke from that mob now before his usual canting on the sublime and the beautiful puts them into a rage. A moment - was that Thurlow who just skulked by? What would he be doing out here instead of at Great Satan's right hand, propping up his doomed campaign in America? Thurlow! Your brother the bishop's here!
Damn the man - wouldn't believe anything a Whig would tell him. I wonder where's he's off - Sheridan! Are you game for a hunt with the chance for some scandal at the kill? Look, there goes Thurlow in the company of a woman. Yes, I know all about that baby he recently fathered, but this may be something new, something we might use as another stick to beat North and his government. Why don't you follow them? Here, leave the bottle with me, will you, and my uncle's court sword as well. Take a pistol from the cabinet and go to it, Dick. Don't let them see you.
No, Georgiana, have no fear - there's no shot in the gun.
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