I have received just now an answer from Charlotte.

Charlot i'n't well. A stomach disorder!

No wonder a girl's stomach should plague her. A single woman; that's it.

When she has a man to plague, it will have something besides itself to

prey upon. Knowest thou not moreover, that man is the woman's sun; woman

is the man's earth?--How dreary, how desolate, the earth, that the suns

shines not upon!

Poor Charlotte! But I heard she was not well: that encouraged me to

write to her; and to express myself a little concerned, that she had not,

of her own accord, thought of a visit in town to my charmer.

Here follows a copy of her letter. Thou wilt see by it that every little

monkey is to catechise me. They all depend upon my good-nature.

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