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LETTER XXIII.
July 20.
I Cannot yet approve the scheme you have of sending me to the
ambassador of ---- at ----. I don't love subordination, and we
all know too that he is a hard disagreeable man to have any
connection with. You say my mother wishes to have me employed. I
could not help laughing at that. -- Am I not employed enough? and
if it is in shelling pease and beans, it is in fact the same, in
this world, all is misery; and those who, in compliance with
others, are endeavouring to acquire riches or honours, are, in my
opinion, madmen.
