“Pray is it a dream or not? for as I am quite alone here I am so distrustful of my own thoughts that I cannot decide which. I shall not therefore be easy till our meeting at Brocket tomorrow (if indeed so delightful a thing is to happen) convinces me that I am no longer to doubt of the happiness which I now contemplate indistinctly. The last thing that I remember with certainty is that you promised at Devonshire House to carry a bottle of Champagne in your pocket to Mrs ——’s ball by way of encouragement to me to dance, & as that ceremony has not taken place I feel half persuaded that there has been some good reason to prevent it.
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“Thank you a thousand times for your very pretty plans of bridges: I think they are admirably suited to the character of the place but as the choice of everything here remains with you I will not pretend to have an opinion about the execution of them. There was a great smoke this morning from the Welwynl side of the country, but whether it proceeded from the burning of turf at Digswell,2 or Mr. Johnes’s fire and faggot I do not know—you will allow that the latter is at least as likely as the former. Good bye my dearest Emily till we meet & believe me always “Yours most affectionly.
