Part 10 (1/2)

To-morrow I shall be just like Camilla in Mr

Dubster's summer-house; for my Lionel will have taken away the ladder by which I caet away, and here I must stay till his return My situation, however, is soh I should be glad to get home by the end of the month I have no idea that Miss Pearson will return with me

What a fine fellow Charles is, to deceive us into writing two letters to hienuity extreainer by it

I aood an account of Mr

Charde, and only fear thatabsence may occasion his relapse I practise every day as much as I can--I wish it were more for his sake

Frank has turned a very nice little butter-churn for fanny I do not believe that any of the party were aware of the valuables they had left behind; nor can I hear anything of Anna's gloves Indeed I have not enquired at all about the Edward's shi+rts, and I am proud to say that I a: Monday [September 5, 1796]

MY DEAR CassANDRA,--I shall be extremely anxious to hear the event of your ball, and shall hope to receive so long and minute an account of every particular that I shall be tired of reading it

I hope John Lovett's accident will not prevent his attending the ball, as you will otherwise be obliged to dance with Mr Tincton the whole evening Let s, and which of the Marys will carry the day with my brother James

_We_ were at a ball on Saturday, I assure you We dined at Goodnestone, and in the evening danced two country-dances and the Boulangeries I opened the ball with Edward Bridges[74]; the other couples were Lewis Cage and Harriet, Frank and Louisa, fanny and George Elizabeth played one country-dance, Lady Bridges the other, which she eries

In reading over the last three or four lines, I a expressed myself in so doubtful a ht ies who made Henry dance with her at the sa, which, if not impossible, must appear a very improbable event to you But it was Elizabeth who danced We supped there and walked hoht under the shade of two uot some venison from Godmersham, which the two Mr Harveys are to devour to-morrow, and on Friday or Saturday the Goodnestone people are to finish their scraps Henry went away on Friday, as he purposed, _without fayl_ You will hear fro to Steventon shortly Mr Richard Harvey is going to be reat secret, and only known to half the neighbourhood, you rave

Pray remember me to everybody who does not enquire afterGive my love to Mary Harrison, and tell her I wish, whenever she is attached to a young man, some _respectable_ Dr March: Thursday [Septeton we -room, and the pictures of her three children in an ante-room, besides Mr

Scott, Miss Fletcher, Mr Toke, Mr J Toke, and the Archdeacon Lynch Miss Fletcher and I were very thick, but I am the thinnest of the two She wore her purple h it does not become her complexion There are two traits in her character which are pleasing--namely, she admires _Camilla_, and drinks no cream in her tea If you should ever see Lucy, you ence in writing, as she desiredher to any proper sense of shame--that Miss Fletcher says in her defence, that as everybody whom Lucy knehen she was in Canterbury has now left it, she has nothing at all to write to her about By _everybody_, I suppose Miss Fletcher means that a new set of officers have arrived there But this is a note of hness Sir Thoth sailed; the papers say 'on a cruise' But I hope they are gone to Cork, or I shall have written in vain Give my love to Jane, as she arrived at Steventon yesterday, I dare say

Edward and Frank went out yesterday very early in a couple of shooting jackets, and ca at all They are out again to-day, and are not yet returned Delightful sport! They are just come home, Edith his two brace, Frank with his two and a half What a: Sunday [Septe has been spent in doubt and deliberation, in for difficulties, for it ushered in the day with an event which I had not intended should take place so soon by a week Frank has received his appointment on board the _Captain John Gore_ coed to be in town on Wednesday; and though I have every disposition in the world to accoo on the uncertainty of the Pearsons being at hoo to in case they were froood as to fetch hohter from town, I hope, unless he wishes uard at St James' It will hardly be in Frank's power to take ain as soon as I get to Greenwich

I a with Frank occurred to ain, the ti place is so very uncertain that I should be waiting for _dead o with Frank to-morrow and take my chance, &c, but they dissuaded me from so rash a step, as I really think on consideration it would have been; for if the Pearsons were not at home, I should inevitably fall a sacrifice to the arts of some fat woman ould make me drunk with sed to reach Steventon, and at once set to work on _First Impressions_ From that point the letters cease for two years--na the interval In January 1797 ca to the friendshi+p which had long existed between the Austens and the Lloyds, this reat pleasure at Steventon, and Eliza de Feuillide remarks on it as follows:--

James has chosen a second wife in the person of Miss Mary Lloyd, who is not either rich or handsoood humoured

Jane seems much pleased with theknown and liked the lady