if i were you i would certainly get him myself i had almost forgot to you my opinion of mr de lady an i am really delighted with him he is fall as handsome i think as and with such an open good countenance that one cannot help loving him at first sight mr johnson and he are the greatest friends in the world adieu my dearest i wish matters did not go that unlucky visit to but i dare say you did all for the best and there is no destiny your sincerely attached lady to mrs johnson mt b � i yield to the necessity which parts us under circumstances you could not act otherwise our friendship cannot be by it and in happier times when your situation is as independent as mine it will unite us again in the same intimacy as ever for this i shall impatiently wait and meanwhile can safely assure you that i never was more at ease or better satisfied with myself and everything about me than at the present hour your husband i i despise and i am secure of never seeing either again have i not reason to rejoice is more devoted to me than ever and were we at liberty i doubt if i could resist even matrimony offered by him this event if his wife live with you it may be in your power to hasten the violence of her feelings which must lady wear her ont may be easily kept in irritation i rely on your friendship for this i am now satisfied that i never could have brought myself to marry and am equally determined that never shall to morrow i shall fetch her from and let maria tremble for the consequence shall be sir james s wife before she my house and she may and the may storm i regard them not i am tired of my will to the of others of my own judgment in deference to those to whom i owe no duty and for whom i feel no respect i have given up too much have been too easily worked on but shall now feel the difference adieu dearest of friends may the next attack be more favorable and may you always regard me as yours s lady de to mrs my dear � i have charming news for you and if i had not sent off my letter this morning you might have been spared the vexation of knowing of s being gone to london for he is returned is returned not to ask our consent to his marrying lady but to tell us they are parted forever he has been only an hour in the house and i have not been able to learn particulars for he is so very low that i have not the heart to ask questions but i hope lady we shall soon know all this is the most joyful hour he has ever given us since the day of his nothing is wanting hut to have you here and it is our particular wish and entreaty that you would come to us as soon as you can you have owed us a visit many long weeks i hope nothing will make it inconvenient to mr and pray all my and your dear niece is included of course i long to see her it has been a sad heavy winter hitherto without and seeing nobody from i never found the season so dreary before but this happy meeting will make us young again runs much in my thoughts and when has recovered his usual good spirits as i trust he soon will we will try to rob him of his heart once more and i am full of hopes of seeing their hands joined at no great distance your mother c xix mrs to lady de mt � your letter has surprised me beyond measure can it be true that they are separated � and forever i should be if i dared depend on it but after all that i have seen how can one be secure and really with you i my surprise is the greater because on wednesday the very day of his coming to we had a most unexpected and un lady welcome visit looking all cheer and good humor and seeming more ag if she were to marry him when she got to london than as if parted � rom him she stayed nearly two hours was as affectionate and agreeable as ever and not a syllable not a hint was dropped of any or coolness between them i asked her whether she had seen my brother since his in town not as you may suppose any doubt of the fact but merely to see how she looked she immediately answered without any embarrassment that he had been kind enough to call on her on monday but she believed he had already returned home which i was very far from your kind invitation is accepted by us with pleasure and on thursday next we and our little ones will be with you pray heaven may not be in town again by that time i i wish we could bring dear too but i am sorry to say that her mother s errand hither was to fetch her away and miserable as it made the poor girl it was impossible to detain her i was thoroughly unwilling to let her go and so was her uncle and all that could be urged we did urge but lady declared that as she was now about to fix herself in london for several months she could not be easy if her daughter were not with her for masters etc her manner to be sure was very kind and proper and mr believes that will now be treated with affection i wish i could think so too the poor girl s heart was almost broke 