myself up in next winter letters oe jane i took the liberty a few days ago of asking your black velvet bonnet to lend me its which it very readily did and by which i have been enabled to give a considerable improvement of dignity to cap which was before too to please me i shall wear it on thursday but i hope you will not be o ended with me for following your advice as to its ornaments only in part i still venture to retain the narrow silver round it put twice round without any bow and instead of the black shall put in the one as being and besides is to be all the fashion this winter after the ball i shall probably make it entirely black i am sorry that our dear charles begins to feel the dignity of ill usage my father will write to admiral he must have already received so much satisfaction from his acquaintance and patronage of frank that he will be delighted dare say to have another of the family introduced to him i think it would be very right in charles to address sir thomas on the occasion though i cannot approve of your scheme of writing to him which you communicated to me a fe nights ago to request him to come home and convey you to to do you justice however you had some doubts of the propriety of a measure yourself i am very much obliged to my dear little george letters of jane for his message � for his love at least his duty i suppose was only in consequence of some hint of my intentions towards him from his father or mother i am sincerely rejoiced however that i ever was bom since it has been the means of him a dish of tea give my best love to him wednesday � i have changed my mind and changed the of my cap this morning they are now such as you suggested i felt as if i should not prosper if i strayed from your tions and i think it makes me look more like lady now than it did before which is all that one lives for now i believe i shall make my new gown like my robe but the back of the latter is all in a piece with the tail and will seven yards enable me to copy it in that respect i have just heard from and frank his letter was written on november all well and nothing particular j a park x monday night december mt dear � i have got some pleasant news for you which i am eager to communicate and therefore begin my letter sooner though i shall not send it sooner than usual letters of jane admiral in reply to my father s application writes as follows as it is usual to keep young officers in small vessels it being most proper on account of their and it being also a situation where they are more in the way of learning their duty your son has been continued in the but i have mentioned to the board of his wish to be in a and when a proper opportunity offers and it is judged that he has taken his turn in a small ship i hope he will be removed with regard to your son now in the london i am glad i can give you the assurance that his promotion is likely to take place very soon as lord has been so good as to say he would include him in an arrangement that he making in a short time relative to some in that quarter there i may now finish my letter and go and hang myself for i am sure i can neither write nor do anything which will not appear to you after this now i really think he will soon be made and only wish we could communicate our of the event to him whom it principally concerns my father has written to to desire that he will inform us if he can when the commission is sent your chief wish is now ready to be accomplished and could lord give happiness to at the same time what a joy ful heart he would make of yours letters of jane i have sent the same extract of the sweets of to charles who poor fellow though he sinks into nothing but an humble attendant on the hero of the piece will i hope be contented with the prospect held out to him by what the admiral says it appears as if he had been kept in the but i will not torment myself with conjectures and facts shall satisfy me frank had not heard from any of ns for ten weeks when he wrote to me on november in consequence of lord st being removed to when his commission is sent however it will not be so long on its road as our letters because all the government are forwarded by land to his from with great regularity i returned from many down this morning and found my mother certainly in no respect worse than when i left her she does not like the cold weather but that we cannot help i spent my time very quietly and very pleasantly with miss is agreeable i do not want people to be very agreeable as it me the trouble of liking them a great deal i found only and her when i got to on thursday we dined together and went together to to seek the protection of mrs with whom were lady her eldest son and mr and mrs i of jane oar ball was very thin but by no means unpleasant there were one people and only eleven ladies ont of the number and but five single women in the room of the gentlemen present you may hare some 