You seem to have taken up your abode at H——. Pray sir! when do you think
of coming home? or, to write very considerately, when will business
permit you? I shall expect (as the country people say in England) that
you will make a _power_ of money to indemnify me for your absence.
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Well! but, my love, to the old story—am I to see you this week, or this
month?—I do not know what you are about—for, as you did not tell me, I
would not ask Mr. ——, who is generally pretty communicative.
I long to see Mrs. ——; not to hear from you, so do not give yourself
airs, but to get a letter from Mr. ——. And I am half angry with you for
not informing me whether she had brought one with her or not.—On this
score I will cork up some of the kind things that were ready to drop
from my pen, which has never been dipt in gall when addressing you; or,
will only suffer an exclamation—“The creature!” or a kind look, to
escape me, when I pass the flippers—which I could not remove from my
_salle_ door, though they are not the handsomest of their kind.
Be not too anxious to get money!—for nothing worth having is to be
purchased. God bless you.
Yours affectionately
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