Good heavens! it is far from that.
You have had the old doctor's opinion of her.

Very well.

Multiply this opinion by ten--and you have mine.
[NOTE:--A strange indorsement appears on this letter, dated several months after the period at which it was received:--_"Ah, poor Amelius! He had better have gone back to Miss Mellicent, and put up with the little drawback of her age.

What a bright, lovable fellow he was! Goodbye to Goldenheart!"_ These lines are not signed.

They are known, however, to be in the handwriting of Rufus Dingwell.].