I am far from Disavowing this evidence of my esteem for your daughter, but to justify myself I am obliged to tell you a fact which I should have otherwise kept secret-namely, that I furnished your daughter with this sum to enable her to pay your son's debts, for which he thanked me in a letter which I can shew you.
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He besought her to remember "what even her own royal hand had written to the Duke of Parma;" and how much his honour was interested "by the Disavowing of his dealings about the peace begun by her Majesty's commandment."
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At this critical juncture, John Adams and other prominent colonists-not excepting Washington-were actually Disavowing all desire to sever their relations with the parent state in the face of the warlike attitude of congress-an attitude justified by the declaration that it was intended to force a redress of grievances.
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