34/48 His present attentions to your family are very sincere: quite from the heart. I will give you my authority: his friend Colonel Wallis." "Colonel Wallis! you are acquainted with him ?" "No. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. |