May God bless you! Write to me, dearest Mrs.Martin, and tell me of both of you.
Robert's love.
Your ever, ever affectionate BA.
* * * * * _To Mrs.Jameson_ [Paris]: 3 Rue du Colisee: February 28, 1856 [postmark].
My dearest Mona Nina,--Three letters, one on the top of another, and I don't answer.

Shame on me.

How I have thought of you, to make up! And you write to apologise to _us_, from a dreamy mystical apprehension that we may peradventure have lost eightpence on your account! Well, it would have been awful if we had.

And so Providence interposed with a special miracle, and obliged the officials to accept the actual penny stamp for the fourpenny stamp you meant to put, and _we paid just nothing for the terrible letter_! Take heart, therefore, in future, before all hypothetical misfortunes.

That's the moral of the tale....
My dear friend, how shall I pull you and make you come to Paris?
Madame de Triqueti was here the other day, and spoke of you, and swore she wouldn't help to take rooms for you, unless you came near _her_.