The less amused I am, clearly the better for me.

I should live ever so many years more by being shut up in a hermitage, if it were warm and dry.

More's the pity, when one wants to see and hear as I do.

The only sort of excitement and fatigue which does me no harm, but good, is _travelling_.

The effect of the continual change of air is to pour in oil as the lamp burns; so I explain the extraordinary manner in which I bear the fatigue of being four-and-twenty hours together in a diligence, for instance, which many strong women would feel too much for them.
All this talking of myself when I want to talk of you and to tell you how touched I was by the praises of your winning little Letitia! Enclosed is a note to Chapman & Hall which will put her 'bearer' (if she can find one in London) in possession of the two volumes in question.