One advantage there will be in our living together of a most incontestable sort; we shall both be able to save more money.

Trevelyan will soon be entitled to his furlough; but he proposes not to take it till I go home.
I shall write in a very different style from this to my father.

To him I shall represent the marriage as what it is, in every respect except its effect on my own dreams of happiness--a most honourable and happy event; prudent in a worldly point of view; and promising all the felicity which strong mutual affection, excellent principles on both sides, good temper, youth, health, and the general approbation of friends can afford.

As for myself, it is a tragical denouement of an absurd plot.
I remember quoting some nursery rhymes, years ago, when you left me in London to join Nancy at Rothley Temple or Leamington, I forget which.
Those foolish lines contain the history of my life.
"There were two birds that sat on a stone; One flew away, and there was but one.
The other flew away, and then there was none; And the poor stone was left all alone." Ever, my dearest Margaret, yours T.B.MACAULAY.
A passage from a second letter to the same person deserves to be quoted, as an instance of how a good man may be unable to read aright his own nature, and a wise man to forecast his own future.

"I feel a growing tendency to cynicism and suspicion.