But in winter you are reduced to play at it, or sleep, like a fly, till the return of spring.
"Indeed in the morning the Duke hunts,"-- mark that Duke, and two Sons he has.

"But my malicious stars have so contrived it, that I am no more a sportsman than a gamester.

There are no men of learning in the whole Country; on the contrary, it is a character they despise.

A man of quality caught me, the other day, reading a Latin Author; and asked me, with an air of contempt, Whether I was designed for the Church?
All this would be tolerable if I was not doomed to converse with a set of English, who are still more ignorant than the French; and from whom, with my utmost endeavors, I cannot be absent six hours in the day.

Lord" BLANK--Baltimore, or Heaven-knows-who,--"is the only one among them who has common sense; and he is so scandalously debauched, in his principles as well as practice, that his conversation is equally shocking to my morals and my reason."-- Could not one contrive to get away from them; to Soissons, for example, to see business going on; and the Terrestrial Balance settling itself a little?
"My only improvement here is in the company of the Duke," who is a truly distinguished Duke to his bad Country; "and in the exercise of the Academy,"-- of Horsemanship, or what?
"I have been absent from the latter near three weeks, by reason of a sprain I got in the sinews of my leg.
My duty to my dear Mother; I hope you and she continue well.