I find by his Majesty's way of speaking of you, that you are much in his favour and esteem, and I fancy you would find your ease and advantage more in being nearer his person than at the distance you are from him at present.

I omit no opportunity of doing you justice where I think it is for your service, and wish I could know your mind as to these several particulars by a more speedy and certain conveyance, that I might act accordingly to the utmost of my powers.

Madame Kielmansegg and my Lady Hervey desire me to forward the enclosed to my Lady Mary Wortley, to whom I beg you will deliver them with my most humble regards." What Montagu's feelings were can only be imagined.

It is almost certain that he felt himself vastly aggrieved.

Nothing could have been more delicate or complimentary than Addison's letter, but it did not, and could not, disguise the main fact.