Star.
London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

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If you think me capable of entering into a correspondence
of such a nature as the present, when I am seriously contem-
plating marriage with another, I must request and desire that
you will not write to me again ; and be assured I will trouble
you with no more of my letters. I can derive no pleasure is
writing to one who could for an instant suppose me guilty of
such baseness, and who,
Wof necessity, can no longer look upon
me with that tender affeon, that love, which she has so lons
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professed. You little know the warmth and delicacy of that
heart which you have so deeply wounded by hazarding such un-
worthy suspicions. If I love you at all, you will be everything
to me. I and know teo well how to estimate a fond wo-
man's devotion, to attempt to gratify my affection with two ob-
jects at the same time, You have had no reason to complain of I
my letters. They have been all the tenderest woman could wish.
They have all been dictated by the sincerest truth. Do you not
remember what Rousseau says of the letter of a true lover. If
you saw the multiplicity of business with which I am loaded,
you would wonder how I get time to write a single line. Fare-
well, my still dearest Jane. Do not injure, by false suspicions,
that affection which ought to be productive of the greatest mu-
tual bliss." _ _

" 3d July, 1820.

46 My dear Jane—l am uncertain whether I shall be able to
come to Cheltenham. I have some particular busineu to trans-
act; but I advise you on no account to come to London. I
cannot understand why you may not communicate by letter any
thing which you have to say. I shall be always most happy to
offer you my advice. " I am, &c.

P. & I mast be at Cheltenham before the 4th of next
month, if that win suit you."
" Pily dear Jane—The box you mentioned was not reserved
for any friends or even acquaintance of mine, and I have not the
slightest knowledge of the persons who sat in it. How lam
worried !"

" May 4, 1819.
. " No unkind word shall escape from me towards you. My
heart Is much too tender in its vibrations to allow my lips to
utter, or my band to write, an:ehing which Is calculated to give
you pain. If in future your cruelty give me cause for complaint,
my sighs only shall be heard, grieving for the want of love and
tenderneu from you. Would to Htsysai I had never known
you! You seem daily to have obtained an influence over me,
that I deemed it impossible any woman could have arrived at.
You appear to have pervaded the inmost recesses of my heart,
and to have touched a chord which was destined to vibrate at

no common touch. You have established a sway over me, that
I did not believe any woman in England but yourself could have
done. Will it not give you some little pleasure to know that my
theuehts wander to the sequestered .pot where you new reside?
I would forego anything this place can afford for one more
meeting in the lane, now so dear to my recollection ; and yet at
the time I almost fancied it would be our last interview. I
hoped to have emancipated myself from the dangerous power
which you begin to exercise over me. There appeared a cold-
ness in your manner, which did not agree with the warmth of
heart with which my fancy had clothed you. You seemed to
recoil from those caresses which my soul and my lips prompted
me to bestow—not to love so warmly as j had hoped; and had
not your tendeniess revived in some degree before I quitted you,
I should have torn myself from you for ever ! You were unkind
to have accused me of impetuosity: it is the characteristic of a
true lover to be always impetuous when at the feet of her who
has overwhelmed him with tumultuous emotions. If I should
cease to be impetuous, you would have just cause to suppose that
you bad ceased to interest me.--(Here there was an erasure of
two lines.)—Were I engaged in any ordinary concerns, I fear it
would be given up for the sake of wandering by the cottage doss
to the Church. lam in hopes that by the 22d or 23d of this
math I shall be able to quit this place. Shall I then be admit-
ted to see you under any circumstances? Can you not contrive
to see me fur two red minutes? Farewell, dear Jane. Every
happiness attend you.
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" 3lrs. Waterhouse, Church-cottage, Charlton."

" 10th May, 1820.
" I have merely time to write a line; but I must not oink to
thank you for the prettiest, the tenderest letter thatever cheered
as absent lover's heart. You do, indeed. knew how to love with
the most delicate ardour, and the roomiest of your affection
Must evor prove a sovereign balm for every wound. I begin to
feel mY:folitary situation, and I am not ashamed alt. You ask
me if I love music and poetry? Do you think I should deserve
to be loved myself if I did not ? There is nothing in modern
language equal to Latin Rai* The exquisite toodersest of his

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