I gather from what I hear--although you haven't mentioned the fact--that she is as beautiful as she is charming, and that she sings wonderfully.

She must be something remarkable, I am sure, because Eliza Layard evidently detests her, and says that she is trying to ensnare the affections of that squire of dames, her brother Stephen, now temporarily homeless after a visit to Jane Rose.

What will you do when you have to get on without her?
I am afraid you must accustom yourself to the idea, unless she would like to make a third in the honeymoon party.

Joking apart, I am exceedingly grateful to her for all the help she has given you, and, dear, dear Morris, more delighted than I can tell you to learn that after all your years of patient labour you believe success to be absolutely within sight.
"My father, I am sorry to say, is no better; indeed, although the doctors deny it, I believe he is worse, and I see no prospect of our getting away from here at present.

However, don't let that bother you, and above all, don't think of coming out to this place which makes you miserable, and where you can't work.