The souvenir which she sent through you reached me safely, and it makes me very happy.

My health is not so very bad, and yet I grow thinner every day.

Farewell; my paper is at an end, and this forces me to leave you.

A thousand good wishes.
BAPTISTINE.
P.S.Your grand nephew is charming.

Do you know that he will soon be five years old?
Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees ?" He is a charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself.