To Captain Fermor, at Silleri.
Aug. 6.
I have been taking an exact survey of the house and estate with my
mother, in order to determine on some future plan of life.
'Tis inconceivable what I felt on returning to a place so dear to
me, and which I had not seen for many years; I ran hastily from one
room to another; I traversed the garden with inexpressible eagerness:
my eye devoured every object; there was not a tree, not a bush, which
did not revive some pleasing, some soft idea.