sent to school some years miss bell was still retained though the others even then were nursery children they have some good reason i dare say though i cannot penetrate letters of jane it and till i know what it is i shall invent a bad one and amuse myself with for the difference of measures by supposing miss s to be a superior sort of woman who has never stooped to recommend herself to the master of the family by flattery as miss bell did i will answer your kind questions more than you expect miss is put upon the shelf for the present and i do not know that she will ever come out but i have a something ready for publication which may perhaps appear about a hence it is short � about the length of this is for yourself alone neither mr nor mr is to know of it am got tolerably well again quite equal to walking about and enjoying the air and by sitting down and resting a good while between my walks i get exercise enough i have a scheme however for more as the weather grows spring like i mean to take to riding the donkey it will be more independent and less troublesome than the use of the carriage and i shall be able to go about with aunt in her walks to and i hope you will think wm looking well he was the other day and at supplied him with a dose at his own request i am sure you would have approved it wm and i are the letters of jane best of friends i love him very much everything is so natural about him � his affections his manners and his he and interests us extremely mat and a m are people whom i cannot care for in themselves but i enter into their situation and am glad they are so happy if i were the of i should be very miserable about my son s choice our fears increase for poor little the latest account is that sir ev home is confirmed in his opinion of there being water on the brain i hope heaven in its mercy will take her soon her poor father will be quite worn out by his feelings for her he cannot spare at present she is an occupation and a comfort to him sunday march i am very much obliged to you my dearest for sending me mr w s conversation i had great amusement in reading it and i hope i am not and do not think the worse of him for having a brain so very different from mine but my strongest sensation of all is astonishment at your being able to press him on the subject so and i agree with your letters of jane papa that it was not fair when he knows the truth he will be uncomfortable you are the creature nervous enough in some respects but in others perfectly without nerves quite hardened and impudent do not oblige him to read any more have mercy on him tell him the truth and make him an apology he and i should not in the least agree of course in our ideas of novels and pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked but there is some very good sense in what he says and i particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies it shows an amiable and a delicate mind and he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works do not be surprised at finding uncle henry acquainted with my having another ready for publication i could not say no when he asked me but he knows nothing more of it you will not like it so you need not be impatient you may perhaps like the heroine as she is almost too good for me many thanks for your kind care for my health i certainly have not been well for many weeks and about a week ago i was very poorly i have had a good deal of fever at times and indifferent nights but i am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little which have been bad letters of jane enough � black and white and every wrong color i must not depend upon being ever very blooming again sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life thank you for everything you tell me i do not feel worthy of it by anything that i can say in return but i assure you my pleasure in your letters is quite as great as ever and i am interested and amused just as you could wish me if there is a miss i perceive whom she will evening � i was languid and dull and very bad company i wrote the above i am better now to my own feelings at least and wish i may be more agreeable we are going to have rain and after that very pleasant genial weather which will exactly do for me as my saddle will then be completed and air and exercise is what i want indeed i shall be very glad when the event at is over the expectation of it keeps us in a worry your especially she sits brooding over evils which cannot be and conduct impossible to be understood now the reports from st are rather better little s are and sir is satisfied with the effect of the and does not despair of a cure the complaint i find is not considered nowadays provided the patient be young enough not to have the head hardened the water in that case may be drawn letters of jane off by but though this is a new idea to us perhaps it may have been long familiar to you through your friend mr 