jane fifty guineas at a tavern and bow often you were on the point of hanging yourself restrained only as some ill natured upon poor old has it by the want of a tree within some miles of the city charles knight and bis companions passed through about nine this morning later than it used to be uncle henry and i had a glimpse of his handsome face looking all health and good humor i wonder when you will come and see us i know what i rather upon but shall say nothing we think uncle henry in excellent looks look at him this moment and think so too if you have not done it before and we have the great comfort of seeing decided improvement in uncle charles both as to health spirits and appearance and they are each of them so agreeable in their different way and so well that their visit is thorough enjoyment uncle henry writes very superior sermons you and i must try to get hold of one or two and put them into our novels it would be a fine help to a volume and we could make our heroine read it aloud on a sunday evening just as well as in the is made to read the history of the demon in the ruins of st though i believe on recollection is the reader by the bye my dear e i am quite concerned for the loss your mother in her letter two chapters and a half to be missing is monstrous it is well that i have not been at lately and therefore cannot be suspected of them two strong twigs and a half towards a nest of my own would a of au ten have been something i do not think however that any of that sort would be very useful to me what should i do with your strong manly vigorous sketches full of variety and glow how could i possibly join them on to the little bit two inches wide of ivory on which i work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor you will hear from uncle henry how well is she seems perfectly recovered ben was here on saturday to ask uncle charles and me to dine with them to morrow but i was forced to decline it as the walk is beyond my strength though i am otherwise very well and this is not a season for donkey carriages and as we do not like to spare uncle charles he has declined it too tuesday ah ah mr e i doubt your seeing uncle henry at to day the weather will prevent your expecting him i think tell your father with aunt s love and mine that the are extremely good and tell him also � tell him what you will no don t tell him what you will but tell him that him to make joseph hall pay his rent if he can you must not be tired of reading the word uncle for i have not done with it uncle charles thanks your mother for her letter it was a great pleasure to him to know that the parcel was received and gave so much satisfaction and he her to be so good as to give three shillings for him to dame which shall be allowed for in the payment of her debt here a of jane adieu amiable i hope well y yours j i cannot tell how soon she was aware of the serious nature of her malady by god s mercy it was not attended with much suffering so that she was able to tell her friends as in the foregoing letter and perhaps sometimes to persuade herself that excepting want of strength she was otherwise very well but the progress of the disease became more and more manifest as the year advanced the usual walk was at first and then and air was sought in a donkey carriage gradually too her habits of activity within the house ceased and she was obliged to lie down much the sitting room contained only one sofa which was frequently occupied by her mother who was more than seventy years old jane would never use it even in her mother s absence but she contrived a sort of couch for herself with two or three chairs and was pleased to say that this arrangement was more comfortable to her than a real sofa her reasons for this might have been left to be guessed but for the of a little niece which obliged her to explain that if she herself had shown any inclination to use the sofa her mother might have being on it so much as was good for her it is certain however that the mind did not share in this decay of the bodily strength persuasion was not finished before the middle of a of jane august in that year and the manner in which it was then completed affords proof that neither the critical nor the powers of the author were at all the hook had heen to an end in july and the re engagement of the hero and heroine effected in a totally different manner in a scene laid at admiral s lodgings her performance did not satisfy her she thought it tame and flat and was desirous of producing something this weighed upon her mind the more so on account of the weak state of her healthy so that one night she retired to rest in very low spirits but such depression was little in accordance with her nature and was soon shaken off the next morning she awoke to more cheerful views and brighter the sense of power revived and imagination resumed its course she the condemned chapter and wrote two others entirely different in its stead the result is that we possess the visit of the party to bath 