Here I am, again, safely returned from Strabane, after
going through a day’s eating and drinking enough to kill a horse. We had
a most heavenly day, yesterday; but to-day, it has rained incessantly; we were
not, however, wet, being well provided with coats, so that I am in no danger of
dying this trip. Baron’s Court to-day is dulness personified. Lady Abercorn received a shocking account of
Lady Aberdeen from Mrs.
Kemble; and though I know how very little such accounts are
worth minding, yet her tears are infectious, and I cannot help feeling alarmed
and out of spirits. Receiving, as I do, daily marks of their kindness and good
will, I cannot avoid sympathising with them in their worst of all domestic
calamities.
462 | LADY MORGAN'S MEMOIR. |
Have you been gadding about much? Have you seen many people? Are you happy and comfortable? or are you, like me, looking forward anxiously to the happy time that will unite us for ever? Dearest Glorvina, love me as I adore you. How often I kiss the little gold bottle, and think of the sweeter roses on somebody’s lips. Shorten time, by every means, that separates us, if you value the happiness of