I thought that before long it may be our turn to sit, and theirs to stand.
Ever yours T.B.M.
London: June 21, 1833.
Dear Hannah,--I cannot tell you how delighted I was to learn from Fanny this morning that Margaret pronounces you to be as well as she could wish you to be.

Only continue so, and all the changes of public life will be as indifferent to me as to Horatio.

If I am only spared the misery of seeing you suffer, I shall be found A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Has ta'en with equal thanks.
Whether we are to have buffets or rewards is known only to Heaven and to the Peers.

I think that their Lordships are rather cowed.

Indeed, if they venture on the course on which they lately seemed bent, I would not give sixpence for a coronet or a penny for a mitre.
I shall not read the Repealers; and I think it very impudent in you to make such a request.