My mother has a little property, which takes the form of a small life annuity, upon which she lives in an independent though unassuming manner in the Old Street Road.

She is eminently calculated for a mother-in-law.

She never interferes, is all for peace, and her disposition easy.

She has her failings--as who has not ?--but I never knew her do it when company was present, at which time you may freely trust her with wines, spirits, or malt liquors.

My own abode is lodgings at Penton Place, Pentonville.