MY dear Friends,—My brother and Emma are to send you a partnership letter, but
as I have a great dislike to my stupid scrap at the fag end of a dull letter,
and, as I am left alone, I will say my say first; and in the first place thank
you for your kind letter; it was a mighty comfort to me. Ever since you left
me, I have been thinking I know not what, but every possible thing that I could
invent, why you should be angry with me for something I had done or left undone
during your uncomfortable sojourn with us, and now I read your letter and think
and feel all is well again. Emma and her sister Harriet are gone to Theobalds Park, and
Charles is gone to Barnet to cure his
headache, which a good
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Charles and Emma are taking a second walk. Harriet is gone home. Charles wishes to know more about the Widow. Is it to be made to match a drawing? If you could throw a little more light on the subject, I think he would do it, when Emma is gone; but his time will be quite taken up with her; for, besides refreshing her Latin, he gives her long lessons in arithmetic, which she is sadly deficient in. She leaves in a week, unless she receives a renewal of her holydays, which Mrs. Williams has half promised to send her. I do verily believe that I may hope to pass the last one, or two, or three nights with you, as she is to go from London to Bury. We will write to you the instant we receive Mrs. W.’s letter. As to my poor sonnet—and it is a very poor sonnet, only [it] answered very well the purpose it was written for—Emma left it behind her, and nobody remembers more than one line of it, which is, I think, sufficient to convince you it would make no great impression in an Annual. So pray let it rest in peace, and I will make Charles write a better one instead.
This shall go to the Post to-night. If any [one] chooses to add anything to it they may. It will glad my heart to see you again. Yours (both yours) truly and affectionately,
Becky is going by the Post office, so I will send it away. I mean to commence letter-writer to the family.