though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape

She belongs to the true sisterhood of the majestic five daughters born to America's inland Neptune, but she always has been regarded as a poor relation, a sort of shirttail cousin, by her big sisters.

[Of course $20,000 is too much.] Only a cheap chiseler would ask that much.

They acted a Tragedy at Padua when I was there last June 1786 I think: the Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions […] .