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<h2> LETTER LI </h2>
<p>LORD M. TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. M. HALL, FRIDAY, SEPT. 29.</p>
<p>DEAR SIR,</p>
<p>My kinsman Lovelace is now setting out for London; proposing to see you,
and then to go to Dover, and so embark. God send him well out of the
kingdom!</p>
<p>On Monday he will be with you, I believe. Pray let me be favoured with an
account of all your conversations; for Mr. Mowbray and Mr. Tourville are
to be there too; and whether you think he is grown quite his own man
again.</p>
<p>What I mostly write for is, to wish you to keep Colonel Morden and him
asunder; and so I give you notice of his going to town. I should be very
loth there should be any mischief between them, as you gave me notice that
the Colonel threatened my nephew. But my kinsman would not bear that; so
nobody let him know that he did. But I hope there is no fear; for the
Colonel does not, as I hear, threaten now. For his own sake, I am glad of
that; for there is not such a man in the world as my kinsman is said to
be, at all the weapons—as well he was not; he would not be so
daring.</p>
<p>We shall all here miss the wild fellow. To be sure, there is no man better
company when he pleases.</p>
<p>Pray, do you never travel thirty or forty miles? I should be glad to see
you here at M. Hall. It will be charity when my kinsman is gone; for we
suppose you will be his chief correspondent; although he has promised to
write to my nieces often. But he is very apt to forget his promises; to us
his relations particularly. God preserve us all; Amen! prays</p>
<p>Your very humble servant, M.</p>
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