But we shall give due warning of our arrival.

We both look forward to this holiday, and 'languish for the purple seas;' though the high winds now howl a threat of anything but a pleasant crossing to Calais.

_Che! Che!_ One must pay for one's pleasure! With both of our warmest salutations to you and yours, "Believe me, yours faithfully, "G.H.

LEWES." * * * * * The travellers must, however, have reached us some days before the end of March, for I have a letter to my wife from George Eliot, dated from Naples on the 1st of April, 1869, after they had left us.

She writes:-- * * * * * "MY DEAR MRS.