They are all aware of the attachment between us, for I have made my attention so open and so marked that they all must have perceived it.

I know that Lucretia must have had some conversation with her mother on the subject, for she told me one day, when I asked her what her mother thought of my constant visits, that her mother said she 'didn't think I cared much about her,' in a pleasant way.

All the family have been extremely polite and attentive to me; I received constant invitations to dinner and tea, indeed every encouragement was given me....
"I painted two hasty sketches of scenery in Concord.

I meet with no success in Walpole.

_Quacks_ have been before me." There is always a touch of quaint, dry humor in his mother's letters in spite of their great seriousness, as witness the following extracts from a letter of September 9, 1816:-- "We hope you will feel more than ever the absolute necessity laid upon you to procure for yourself and those you love a maintenance, as neither of you can subsist long upon air....