Your sympathy stretches _beyond_ points of agreement, which is so rare and so precious, and makes one feel so unspeakably grateful....
London has emptied itself, as you may suppose, by this time.

Mrs.Ormus Biddulph was so kind as to wish us to dine with them on Monday (to-day), but we found it absolutely impossible.

The few engagements we make we don't keep, and I shall try for the future to avoid perjury.

As it is, I have no doubt that various people have set me down as 'full of arrogance and assumption,' at which the gods must laugh, for really, if truths could be known, I feel even morbidly humble just now, and could show my sackcloth with anybody's sackcloth.

But it is difficult to keep to the conventions rigidly, and return visits to the hour, and hold engagements to the minute, when one has neither carriage, nor legs, nor time at one's disposal, which is my case.