To Mrs. Temple, Pall Mall.
May 5.
I have got my Emily again, to my great joy; I am nobody without her.
As the roads are already very good, we walk and ride perpetually, and
amuse ourselves as well as we can, _en attendant_ your brother,
who is gone a settlement hunting.
The quickness of vegetation in this country is astonishing; though
the hills are still covered with snow, and though it even continues in
spots in the vallies, the latter with the trees and shrubs in the woods
are already in beautiful verdure; and the earth every where putting
forth flowers in a wild and lovely variety and profusion.
'Tis amazingly pleasing to see the strawberries and wild pansies
peeping their little foolish heads from beneath the snow.
Emily and I are prodigiously fond after having been separated; it is
a divine relief to us both, to have again the delight of talking of our
lovers to each other: we have been a month divided; and neither of us
have had the consolation of a friend to be foolish to.
Fitzgerald dines with us: he comes.
Adieu! yours,
A. Fermor.