That's true.
[_Incomplete_] * * * * * _To Miss E.F.

Haworth_ Florence: June [1853].
My dearest Fanny,--I hope you will write to me as if I deserved it.

You see, my first word is to avert the consequences of my sin instead of repenting of it in the proper and effectual way.

The truth is, that ever since I received your letter we have been looking out for 'messengers' from the Legation, so as to save you postage; while the Embassy people have been regularly forgetting us whenever there has been an opportunity.

By the way, I catch up that word of 'postage' to beg you _never to think of it_ when inclined in charity to write to us.