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amused me, I am ashamed to say, so
much, that I contrived, during the day,
to put a third into his bed; and the next
morning I dropped another into the tea-
cup when Warbeck left it for a few min-
utes in the hall. I had no intention of
teasing him any further; but I happened
to be present when he unpacked his
hamper, and I thought he would be so
perplexed to find another of the stones
in his present from home, that I was
tempted, whilst he was putting the differ-
. ent packages into his box, to make up
the fifth of them into a small parcel, and
changed it for the one directed to him,
which he had overlooked. The real en-
closure I’ put into his desk behind some
books, where he will find it. This is all
that I have done; and, indeed, Sir, I
should not have done what I did if I
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