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I will not give you the trouble of sending your chaise for me. I intend to be with you on Wednesday in the evening. If the press stands still all this time for me, to be sure it is dead in child-bed.
I do not love notes, though you see I had resolved to put two or three. They are signs of weakness
and obscurity. If a thing cannot be understood without them, it had better be not understood at all. If you will be vulgar, and
pronounce it Lunnun,
instead of London, I can't help it. Caradoc I have private reasons
against; and besides it is in reality Carādoc, and will not stand in the verse.
I rejoice you can fill all your vuides.
the Maintenon could not, and that was her great misfortune. Seriously though, I congratulate you on
your happiness, and seem to understand it. The receipt is obvious: it is only, Have something to do;
but how few can apply it! –