The proof that you do it rightly may be given by the omission or repetition of the same mistake in your next. It is my interest that it should have been designed but I presume it was accidental. There was a most critical comma in your last letter. You ladies despise the pedantry of punctuation. I beg your pardon for it and I hope you will be able to tell me in your next that you have not by the least propensity to a smile verified the maxim of that scurvy defamer of human nature-Rochefoucault. This method of speaking of the misfortune of your friend proceeds from pure levity not a particle of malice. He is gone to the South of France, if possible, to preserve them. Her lover a buxom widower of five and forty braving summer heats and wintry ⟨blasts⟩ exerted himself with so much zeal in the service of his dulcinea that there is every appearance it will cost him his lungs. She was ready, with as much eagerness as can be ascribed to the chaste wishes of a virgin heart, to sip the blissful cup, when alas! it slipped through her fingers-at least for a time, if not for ever. You ask if your friend Kitty Livingston 4 is married? You recollect the proverb. If you read this letter in a certain mood, you will easily divine that in which I write it. I have a great opinion of your discernment and therefore I venture to rant. And in your case the dullest materials could not help feeling that propensity. I seldom write to a lady without fancying the relation of lover and mistress.

This you will tell me is poetical enough. Notwithstanding the compliment you pay to my eloquence its resources could give you but a feeble image of what I should wish to convey. 3 Imagine, if you are able, the pleasure it gave me.

But I can not, however great my hurry, resist the strong desire I feel of thankg you for your invaluable letter by the last packet. Your husband has too much gallantry to be offended at this implication of preference. I this morning wrote a short and hasty line to your other self 2 and did not then expect I should have been able to find a moment for the more agreeable purpose of dropping a line to you.

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