messages she might have carried it her that tom s sisters could be satisfied with remaining in london at such a time through an illness which had now under different degrees of danger lasted several weeks they might return to when they chosen travelling could be no difficulty to them and she could not how both could still keep away if i could imagine any interfering obligations certainly able to quit london whenever she chose it appeared from one of her aunt s letters that had offered to return if wanted but this was all it was evident that she would rather remain she was was disposed to think the influence of london very much at war with all respectable she saw the proof of it in miss as well as in her cousins her attachment to had been respectable the moat respectable part of her character her friend had at least been where was e now it was bo long since had had her that she had some to think lightly ship which had been so dwelt on it was weeks since she had heard anything of miss or of her other in town except through and she was be to suppose that she might never know whether mr had gone into again or not and might never hear from his sister any more this spring when the following letter was received to revive old and create some new sensations � forgive me my dear as soon as you can for my long silence and behave as if you could forgive me directly this is my modest request and expectation for yon are so good that i depend upon being treated better than i deserve and i write now to beg an immediate answer i want to know the state of things at park and you no doubt are per able to give it one should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in and from what i hear poor mr has a bad chance of ultimate recovery i thought little of his illness at first i looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a with and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him but now it is asserted that he is really in a decline that the symptoms are most alarming and that part of the family at least are aware of it if it be so i am sure you must be included in that part that part and therefore entreat you to let me know how far i have been rightly informed i need not say how rejoiced i shall be to hear there has been any mistake but the report is so that i confess i cannot help trembling to have such a fine young man cut off in the flower of his days is most melancholy poor sir thomas will feel it i really am quite agitated on the subject i see you smile and look cunning but upon my honour i never a physician in my life poor young man if he is to die there will be two poor young men less in the world and with a fearless face and bold voice would i say to any one that wealth and consequence could fall into no hands more deserving of them it was a foolish last christmas but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part and hide many it will be but the loss of the after his name with real affection like mine more might be overlooked write to me by of post judge of my and do not trifle with it tell me the real truth as you have it from the fountain head and now do not trouble yourself to be ashamed of either my feelings or your own believe me are not only natural they are and virtuous i put it to your conscience whether sir would not do more good with all the property than other possible sir had the been at home i would not have troubled you but you are now the only one i can apply to for the truth his sisters not being within my reach mrs r has been spending the with the as to be sore know and la not yet d and a tbe who near but i forget their n mn and could i immediately however i prefer you it ma that have all ion been ao unwilling to have own cut up aa to eyes to the truth r s � holidays will not last longer no are holidays to her the ay era are people and husband away she can slave nothing bat i give credit for hia going down to bath to fetch hia mother bnt how she and the dow in one house henry not at hand so have nothing to say from him do not you think would have ii in town again long hut for this your ever i had actually begun folding letter when henry walked in but he no intelligence to prevent my sending it mrs r knows a decline la he saw her this morning she returns to street to day the old lady la come now do not make yourself uneasy with any queer fancies ho has been a few days at he it every spring be he cares for nobody but yon at very moment be is to you and occupied only in the means for doing so and for making bis pleasure to la proof he and more eagerly what be li at about oar conveying you and i join him in it with all my dear directly and toll ua to come it will do us all good he and i c� o go to tbe you know and be no to our friends at park it would really 