What have I to write in it except the pair of commas under the last line of yesterday--"He has not come!" Oh! to be caring for a he.
'O that I were with your sister now, on one side of her idol, to correct her extravagant idolatry! I long for her.

I had a number of nice little phrases to pet her with.
'You have said (I have it written) that men who are liked by men are the best friends for women.

In which case, the earl should be worthy of our friendship; he is liked.

Captain Abrane and Sir Meeson, in spite of the hard service he imposes on them with such comical haughtiness, incline to speak well of him, and Methuen Rivers--here for two days on his way to his embassy at Vienna--assured us he is the rarest of gentlemen on the point of honour of his word.

They have stories of him, to confirm Livia's eulogies, showing him punctilious to chivalry: No man alive is like him in that, they say.