To John Temple, Esq; Temple-house, Rutland.
Sept. 21, Nine at night.
The loveliest of women has consented to make me happy: she
remonstrated, she doubted; but her tenderness conquered all her
reluctance. To-morrow I shall call her mine.
We shall set out immediately for your house, where we hope to be the
next day to dinner: you will therefore postpone your journey to town a
week, at the end of which we intend going to Bellfield. Captain Fermor
and Mrs. Fitzgerald accompany us down. Emily's relation, Mrs. H----, has
business which prevents her; and Fitzgerald is obliged to stay another
month in town, to transact the affair of his majority.
Never did Emily look so lovely as this evening: there is a sweet
confusion, mixed with tenderness, in her whole look and manner, which
is charming beyond all expression.
Adieu! I have not a moment to spare: even this absence from her is
treason to love. Say every thing for me to my mother and Lucy.
Yours,
Ed. Rivers.