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Eath. Itwasnotone, or two, ilijudged
aclions, among a thousand great, good,
and generous ones I knew him to be guilty
oj, which could break off our friendship,
nor aid he back-ground-brujk my counte-
nance as Mrs. Thicknesse had desired, for
some years afterwards I asked him whe-
ther he had so done! no, no, said he,
colouring (for he was a great colouristjone
day or other, some of your family or
friends will be glad of it, but I nowjujpcdt
it has had the brujh, or the JciJfars, ajate
many oj his Portraits has met zvith, in the
courje oj Jorty years.—JealouJy, or hatred,
has occajioncd many such murderous deeds! !
but those who best loved Mr. Gainsbo-
rough, and whom he most loved, were
unfortunately least welcome to his house,
E his
Eath. Itwasnotone, or two, ilijudged
aclions, among a thousand great, good,
and generous ones I knew him to be guilty
oj, which could break off our friendship,
nor aid he back-ground-brujk my counte-
nance as Mrs. Thicknesse had desired, for
some years afterwards I asked him whe-
ther he had so done! no, no, said he,
colouring (for he was a great colouristjone
day or other, some of your family or
friends will be glad of it, but I nowjujpcdt
it has had the brujh, or the JciJfars, ajate
many oj his Portraits has met zvith, in the
courje oj Jorty years.—JealouJy, or hatred,
has occajioncd many such murderous deeds! !
but those who best loved Mr. Gainsbo-
rough, and whom he most loved, were
unfortunately least welcome to his house,
E his