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Senhora whether I finish it or not I will begin a letter to you this evening, for in plain truth the cock of my
conscience crows loudly upon that subject, & in order to get thro it as fast as possible that it may go by this post I will
scribble away in the news-mongering shepistolary style.
In the first place you will be glad to hear that ever since you left us Mrs Peachy has continued to amend – here she still is, keeping at home always in the
evening, & indeed never venturing out but in the very tempting weather, – & wonderfully recovered. We were there last night –
they have carried off Miss Wood from Netherhall,burr, I to have seen her walk short, & walk tall as she calls it, – which kept me in a roar
of laughter. I like her well.
We have had some pleasant Lakers here. Mr & Mrs Smith, whom
you may remember we expected, – & Dr & Mrs Reeve of Norwich
This morning Sir John Jackass
I am under a good deal of anxiety about Grosvenor
Bedford. he left Wynnstay about ten days ago meaning to come here. What is become of
him God knows, – but meantime letters have reached me inclosing accounts of death. his brother Horace’s
Horace
his brother.
The Doctor as usual is got into a scrape in Portugal. He
& Mary Sealy have been thrown together at Cintra, – she has been under his care & as she got well of the disease – got sick of
the Doctor. Things have gone so far that he asked her father for her &
has been refused. Mr Sealy
We have mist you much – & I never think of you (which if I were disposed not to do my books would make me fifty
times a day,)not from the quantity of information which the book contains, – yet the notes seem to imply that it
is. Would you not like to be present when the discovery is made to the Colonel –
There will be some difficulty in making him understand the truth. – He played the cymbals last night to admiration.
You have done with [MS torn] just as I expected – I well knew that whatever resolutions you made – your good sense & good temper would necessarily get the better at last. There are not many things in this life which are worth being seriously angry about – Perhaps I should say nothing but moral guilt & political folly.
As soon as Palmerin