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He then told me that I had bad people about me, but that he wished to avoid names, his motive being to put me upon my guard without a wish to injure others.

He said “the wedding they had planned was founded on a variety of hopes & must end badly” or words to that effect. Supposing that he alluded to a wedding which had taken place a few days before by my orders – I replied I was the only pson to blame if it was not a proper one. That wedding was betw a slave Girl of mine called Jenny,