Oh, it won't be very bad, I dare say.

I mean to try to be quiet, and abjure for the future the night air.
I should not omit to tell you in this quantity of egotism that my husband's father and sister have received me most affectionately.

She is highly accomplished, with a heart to suit the head.
Now do write.

Let me hear all about you, and how dear Mr.Martin and yourself are.

Robert's cordial regards with those of Your ever affectionate and ever grateful BA.
* * * * * _To Mrs.Martin_ 26 Devonshire Street: Saturday, [about August 1851].
My dearest Mrs.Martin,--Day by day, and hour by hour almost, I have wanted to thank you again and again for your remedy (which I did not use, by the bye, being much better), and to answer your inquiry about me, which really I could not deliver over to Arabel to answer; but the baby did not go to the country with Wilson, and I have been 'devoted' since she went away; _une ame perdue_, with not an instant out of the four-and-twenty hours to call my own.