has received his appointment on board the captain john commanded by the and wiu therefore be obliged to be in town on wednesday and though i have every disposition in the world to accompany him on that day i cannot go on the uncertainty of the being at home as i should not have a place to go to in case they were from home i wrote to miss p on friday and hoped to receive an answer from her this morning which would have rendered everything smooth and easy and would have enabled us to leave this place tomorrow as frank on first receiving his appointment intended to do he remains till wednesday merely to me i have written to her again to day and desired her to answer it by return of poet on tuesday therefore i shall positively know whether they can receive me on wednesday letters of jane if they cannot has been so good aa to promise to take me to on the monday following which was the day before fixed on if that suits them better if i have no answer at all on tuesday i must suppose mary is not at home and must wait till i do hear as after having invited lier to go to with me it will not quite do to go home and say no more about it my father will be so good as to fetch home his prodigal daughter from town i hope he wishes mc to walk the enter at the temple or mount guard at st james it will hardly be in frank s power to take me home � nay it certainly will not i shall write again as soon as i get to what dreadful hot weather we have i it keeps letters of jane q coming into again the time of taking place ia ao very uncertain that i should be waiting for dead shoes i had once determined to go with frank to morrow and take my chance c but they me from so a step as i really think on consideration it would have been for if the were not at i inevitably fall a sacrifice to the arts of some fat woman who would make me drunk with small beer is brought to bed of a boy � both doing very well i shall leave you to guess what mary i mean adieu with best love to all your agreeable don t let the go on any account before i return unless miss p is of the party how ill i have written i i ix gin to myself yours ever j the is a new just launched at frank is much pleased with the prospect of having captain under his command letters of jane the next division of letters those written in o in january the first is written from evidently fu st journey to from where mr and mrs george had been their con edward in liis new abode probably for the first time since he could not have been for more than a year ami there is a account of the loss and recovery of jane s writing and dressing boxes which appear to have had a narrow escape from a voyage to west from this and tiie following letters it would that mrs was in delicate health and ap letters of jane au the affords and fills her letters with such gossip about things and people as would be likely to interest her sister most of the people to whom she will be identified by reference to the chapters of this book and of others there is nothing more to ye said that they were country neighbours of various stations in life to whom no particular interest as far as jane is concerned the were brothers who occupied a fine old house and a large farm in which belonged to the knight family until mr e knight son of k sold it to the duke of and the late duke sold it in to mr an attempt to restore it failed and eventually a new house was built some fifty yards from the old one but although the latter was turned into stables its appearance in front at least was not injured and there is a charming view of it across the lawn fix m the drawing room of the new house previous to its sale to the present owner the family had occupied the house for more than years but not being irish tenants i suppose they got no compensation for � y � i i l � � � j � � m letters of jane john bond was mr s m his farming operations there is an anecdote relating to this worthy which may as well be told here mr used to join mr in buying twenty or ty sheep and that all might be fair it was their custom to open the pen and the first half of tlie sheep which ran out were counted as belonging to the going down to the fold on one occasion after this process had been gone through mr remarked one sheep among liis lot larger and finer than the rest john he observed to bond who was with him i think we have had the best of the luck with mr to day in getting that sheep maybe not so much in the luck as you think air responded the faithful john i ace d her the letters of jane long but at all events this proves that it was no hasty production but one which had been well considered and submitted to the judgment of others long before it was given to tlie public jane changed the name of another novel also between composition and publication sense and sensibility having been at first entitled and in the same letter there is an observation about mrs knight s giving up the estate to 