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As to the invitation you are so kind as to give me , to remove privately into your neighbourhood , I have told Mr. Hickman that I will consider of it ; but believe , if you will be so good as to excuse me , that I shall not accept of it , even should I be able to remove . I will give you my reasons for declining it ; and so I ought , when both my love and my gratitude would make a visit now-and-then from my dear Miss Howe the most consolate thing in the world to me . You must know then , that this great town , wicked as it is , wants not opportunities of being better ; having daily prayers at several churches in it ; and I am desirous , as my strength will permit , to embrace those opportunities . The method I have proposed to myself -LRB- and was beginning to practise when that cruel arrest deprived me of both freedom and strength -RRB- is this : when I was disposed to gentle exercise , I took a chair to St. Dunstan 's church in Fleet-street , where are prayers at seven in the morning ; I proposed if the weather favoured , to walk -LRB- if not , to take chair -RRB- to Lincoln 's - inn chapel , where , at eleven in the morning , and at five in the afternoon , are the same desirable opportunities ; and at other times to go no farther than Covent-garden church , where are early morning prayers likewise . This method pursued , I doubt not , will greatly help , as it has already done , to calm my disturbed thoughts , and to bring me to that perfect resignation after which I aspire : for I must own , my dear , that sometimes still my griefs and my reflections are too heavy for me ; and all the aid I can draw from religious duties is hardly sufficient to support my staggering reason . I am a very young creature you know , my dear , to be left to my own conduct in such circumstances as I am in . Another reason why I choose not to go down into your neighbourhood , is the displeasure that might arise , on my account , between your mother and you .