I don't quite say that a good thing should have been hindered for the sake of our opinion, if it is a good thing; but the announcement comes very suddenly.

It must have been foreseen by my mother for some time that this upshot was probable, and Caroline might have told me more distinctly that M.de la Feste was her lover, instead of alluding so mysteriously to him as only a friend of the Marlets, and lately dropping his name altogether.

My father, without exactly objecting to him as a Frenchman, 'wishes he were of English or some other reasonable nationality for one's son-in-law,' but I tell him that the demarcations of races, kingdoms, and creeds, are wearing down every day, that patriotism is a sort of vice, and that the character of the individual is all we need think about in this case.

I wonder if, in the event of their marriage, he will continue to live at Versailles, or if he will come to England.
August 7 .-- A supplemental letter from Caroline, answering, by anticipation, some of the aforesaid queries.

She tells me that 'Charles,' though he makes Versailles his present home, is by no means bound by his profession to continue there; that he will live just where she wishes, provided it be not too far from some centre of thought, art, and civilization.