Chapter CVIII: Letter CVI: To Mr. I

October 3, 1779.

DEAR SIR,

YOU will make me happy by procuring me an order from Mr. H---- for three, any night this week--’tis to oblige a worthy man who has more wants than cash;--believe me, there is more of vanity than good-nature in my request--for I have boasted of the honour of being countenanced by Mr. I----, and shall ostentatiously produce your favor, as a proof of your kindness, and my presumption:--thanks, over and over, for Sir H---- Freeman’s letters, which I will send home in a day or two:--I return the Sermons, which I like so well, that I have placed a new set of them by Yorick’s, and think they will not disagree.--I pray you to send by the bearer the bit of honored Mortimer you promised for friend M----, who, though he called some few mornings since on purpose, yet was so plagued with the _mauvaise hondt_ (I believe I spell it Yorkshirely, but you know what I mean), that the youth could not for his soul say what he was looking after:--if you accompany it with the sea-piece you kindly offered me, I shall have employment in cleansing and restoring beauties which have escaped your observation--and I shall consider myself

Your much more obliged,

I. SANCHO.