I am glad you have not quite forgot that there is such a
person as I in being; but I am willing to shut my eyes,
and not see anything that looks like unkindness in you,
and rather content myself with what excuses you are
pleased to make, than be inquisitive into what I must
not know. I should very readily comply with your
proposition of changing the season, if it were in my
power to do it, but you know that lies altogether in
your own breast; I am sure the winter has been too
unpleasant for me to desire the continuance of it; and I
wish you were to endure the sharpness of it but for one
hour, as I have done for many long nights and days; and
then I believe it would move that rocky heart of yours,
that can be so thoughtless of me as you are; But if it
were designed for that end, to make the summer the more
delightful, I wish it may have the effect so far, as to
continue it to be so too, that the weather may never
overcast again; the which if I could be assured of, it
would recompense me for all that I have ever suffered,
and make me as easy a creature as I was the first moment
I received breath. When you come to H----d pray let
your steed guide you, and do not do as you did the last
time; and be sure order your affairs to be here as soon
as you can, which cannot be sooner than you will be
heartily welcome to