“Unless your draft for 40l. wishes to travel to the south, having lately come ‘north about,’ it shall pass to your credit with our house. On my return from the city this morning, I found a note from you directed to me. I read the first and second passages over and over again, endeavouring in vain to comprehend them, and thinking they were some literary effusions which I could not comprehend, but at last I felt convinced they were not intended for me, and ‘vix ea nostra voco.’ It is very tantalising to come on Wednesday to shake hands with me, when I am gone. I rise with the lark on Wednesday, and settle with it to rest, I hope, at Calais.
“How can I get a quarter’s ‘Literary Gazette’ at Gottingen for Mr. Rothschild? Pray, if you can, let me know to-morrow (Tuesday). Remember the third Sunday in August. Will you be kind enough to tell the archdeacon [Pott] I am much disappointed, &c., and introduce my ladies.
“I spent some time this morning with Mr. Cartwright. He has not found out the way
of making pain turn into pleasure as it were by the touch of Harlequin’s
wand, nor does he suppose he has; but certainly by his
kind and
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“‘Where’er I turn, whatever realms I
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“I assure you I did not mean this for rhyme.”
