I thank you exceedingly for communicating to me that you had taken the measure proposed—You will easily imagine my anxiety for the result—To-day I feel very sanguine—because I have had a letter from her which must have been written since she received yours, & in which she does not say one word of you or your letter—I am willing to hope & believe that this is conclusive as to her intention of taking it as she ought—quietly at least—& if quietly surely it must be gratefully—Her letters of late have been dejected & melancholy to the greatest degree, & that of to-day more so than ever—Her letters to Ld. F. Bentinck (who is, as you probably know, very much in her confidence & very kind to her) are, he tells me, more melancholy than ever—but I do
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