My interest in her is purely religious.

To persons of my devout turn of mind she is an awful warning.
When I feel Satan near me--it will be _such_ a means of grace to think of Mercy Merrick! "Poor Lady Janet! I noticed those signs of mental decay to which you so feelingly allude at the last interview I had with her in Mablethorpe House.

If you can find an opportunity, will you say that I wish her well, here and hereafter?
and will you please add that I do not omit to remember her in my prayers?
"There is just a chance of my visiting England toward the close of the autumn.

My fortunes have changed since I wrote last.

I have been received as reader and companion by a lady who is the wife of one of our high judicial functionaries in this part of the world.