I ought to have announced my arrival to you before this;
but I have been involved, engaged, dazzled, and you who are a philosopher, and
see human nature just as it is, will account for and excuse this, and say, she
is not ungrateful nor negligent, she is only human. My
entré here was attended by every circumstance
that could render it delightful or gracious to my feelings. A coach-and-four
was sent to meet me thirty miles off, and missed me. I remained a day or two in
London with my very kind friends the Pattersons. I hold my place of first
favourite, and the favour I for-
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