As to Law, it's different from Right--particularly in England perhaps--and appeals to Law are disastrous when they cannot be counted on as victorious, always and certainly.

Therefore you may be wise in abstaining; you have considered sufficiently, of course.

I only hope you are not trammelled in any degree by motives of delicacy which would be preposterous under the actual circumstances.

You meantime are as nobly laborious as ever.
We have caught hold of fragments in the newspapers from your 'Commonplace Book,' which made us wish for more; and Mr.Kenyon told me of a kind mention of Robert which was very pleasant to me.
How will it be?
Shall you be likely to come to Italy before we set out to the north--that is, before the middle of May--or shall we cross on the road, like our letters, or shall we catch you in London, or in Paris at least?
Oh, you won't miss the Exhibition in Paris.

That seems certain.
I know Florence Nightingale slightly.