of those who make you compliments on this occasion, if I could have brought a cheerful countenance with me. I am full of envy. It is too much, in so
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the dean of Carlisle's chariot, to bring me to Chelsea; for it has rained prodigiously all this afternoon. The dean did not come himself, but sent me his chariot; which has cost me two shillings to the coachman; and so I am got home; and Lord knows what is become of Patrick!" May 25.— "It was bloody hot walking to day; and I was so lazy I dined where my new gown was, at Mrs. Vanhomrigh's, and came back like a fool, and the dean of Carlisle has sitten with me till eleven." May 28. — "I am proposing to my lord to erect a society or academy for correcting and settling our language; that we may not perpetually be changing as we do. He enters mightily into it; so does the dean of Carlisle." June 22.— "Dr. Gastrell and I dined by invitation with the dean of Carlisle." June 23. — "They still keep my neighbour Atterbury in suspense about the deanery of Christ Church, which has been above six months vacant; and he is heartily angry." June 26. — "This is the last night I lie at Chelsea; and I got home early, and sat two hours with the dean, and ate victuals, having had a very scurvy dinner." July 4. — "This day I left Chelsea for good." July 5. — "I walked to Chelsea, and was there by nine this morning; and the dean of Carlisle and I crossed the water to Battersea, and went in his chariot to Greenwich, where we dined at Dr. Gastrell's, and passed the afternoon at Lewisham, at the dean of Canterbury's; and there I saw Moll Stanhope, who is grown monstrously tall, but not so handsome as formerly. It is the first little rambling journey I have had this summer about London; and they are the agreeablest pastimes one can have, in a friend's coach and good company." July 14. — "Dean Atterbury sent to me, to dine with him at Chelsea; I refused his coach, and walked; and am come back by seven." July 19. — "The dean of Carlisle sat with me to day till three." Aug. 21. — "I walked to day to Chelsea, and dined with the dean of Carlisle, who is laid up with the gout. It is now fixed, that he is to be dean of Christ Church in Oxford. I was advising him to use his interest to prevent any misunderstanding between our ministers; but he is too wise to meddle, though he fears the thing and the conse-
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