None of the old servants are there; and I have no one from whom I can learn anything for certain.

Things however are, I hear, much worse since young Mr.
Dormay was killed in the duel in London, of which I told you in my last letter.
"Dame Celia and Mistress Ciceley go but seldom abroad, and when seen they smile but little, but seem sad and downcast.

The usurper has but small dealing with any of the gentry.

There are always men staying there, fellows of a kind with whom no gentleman would consort, and they say there is much drinking and wild going on.

As Captain Charles specially bade me, I have done all that I could to gather news of Nicholson.