I write to tell you what has offered for our darling Olivia.
You know, with all partiality, that she needs a good deal of finishing, though she has left me far behind in music and drawing.
Madame Dacier paid us a visit yesterday, and said she
would be happy to receive Olivia
whenever she could come; and, what has pleased me much, she has offered to take
Molly as upper children’s maid
to the establishment, so she will be returned to the situation which dear mamma
took her from when she was at Madame
Terson’s and she will not be separated from her darling
nursling. Molly is cheered up, for she has been very sulky
and cross for some time past, and said, “She supposed she was to be
thrown over, and
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I have some good news which I shall reserve for another letter, as I want to save the post; but I just ask you if you ever heard of an old lady of the name of Steele; or a family of the name of Featherstone? they are friends of Dr. Pellegrini and Mr. Fontaine.
God bless you, dear papa, you shall hear again soon, don’t be uneasy if not for a few days.