But on second thoughts I will tell you nothing, nor ever will write to you again, nor ever speak to you again.
I have no pleasure in writing to undutiful sisters.

Why do you not send me longer letters?
But I am at the end of my paper, so that I have no more room to scold.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah and Margaret Macaulay.
London: August 14, 1832.
My dear Sisters,--Our work is over at last; not, however, till it has half killed us all.[On the 8th August, 1832, Macaulay writes to Lord Mahon: "We are now strictly on duty.

No furloughs even for a dinner engagement, or a sight of Taglioni's legs, can be obtained.

It is very hard to keep forty members in the House.

Sibthorpe and Leader are on the watch to count us out; and from six till two we never venture further than the smoking-room without apprehension.