The hope of receiving your news was giving me almost as much delight as your return could have brought me: you have put it off longer than you promised me.

As for me, although you do not write, I play my part always.

I shall take him to Craigmiller on Monday, and he will spend the whole of Wednesday there.

On that day I shall go to Edinburgh to be bled there, unless you arrange otherwise at least.

He is more cheerful than usual, and he is better than ever.
"He says everything he can to persuade me that he loves me; he has a thousand attentions for me, and he anticipates me in everything: all that is so pleasant for me, that I never go to him but the pain in my side comes on again, his company weighs on me so much.