47/68 May I add, on the side of consolation, that I prize with hardly inferior gratitude the privilege of corresponding with _you ?_ "Farewell for the present. I am too rudely shaken in my most cherished convictions, I am too depressed and disheartened, to write more. All good wishes go with you, dear Miss Roseberry, until we meet. I never knew what happiness was until now. And better still, I have persuaded Mercy that it is all her doing. |