“I should like you to fetch the MSS., and then to
ascertain for me whether I had better return there or not, as soon as this
affair is over. I cannot give her up without an absolute certainty. Only,
however, sound the matter by saying, for instance, that you are desired to get
me a lodging, and that you believe I should prefer being there to being
anywhere else. You may say that the affair of the divorce is over, and that I
am gone a tour in the Highlands. . . . . Ours was the sweetest friendship. Oh!
might the delusion be renewed, that I might die in it! Test her through some
one who will satisfy my soul I have lost only a lovely frail one that I was not
likely to gain by true love. I am going to see K——, to get him to go with me to the High lovely frail one that
I was not likely to gain by true love. I am going to see
K——, to get him to go with me to the High-
| 46 | WITH S—— K—— IN THE |
“Send me a line about my little boy.
