You are sure, therefore, of seeing your friend either to-morrow or Sunday.

They really go on Monday; and I was within a trifle of being persuaded to stay at Lessingby till that very day! I had almost promised it.

What a difference it might have made! Those five or six days more at Lessingby might have been felt all my life." "You were near staying there ?" "Very.

I was most kindly pressed, and had nearly consented.

Had I received any letter from Mansfield, to tell me how you were all going on, I believe I should certainly have staid; but I knew nothing that had happened here for a fortnight, and felt that I had been away long enough." "You spent your time pleasantly there ?" "Yes; that is, it was the fault of my own mind if I did not.