LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
It is now Saturday evening, but I wrote the
chief of this in the morning. My mother has not
been down at all to-day; the laudanum made her
sleep a good deal, and upon the whole I think
she is better. My father and I dined by ourselves.
How strange! He and John Bond are
now very happy together for I have just heard
the heavy step of the latter along the passage.
James Digweed called to-day, and I gave him his brother’s deputation. Charles Harwood, too, has just called to ask how we are, in his way from Dummer, whither he has been conveying Miss Garrett, who is going to return to her former residence in Kent. I will leave off, or I shall not have room to add a word to-morrow.
Sunday. — My mother has had a very good night, and feels much better to-day.
I have received my Aunt’s letter, and thank you for your scrap. I will write to Charles soon. Pray give Fanny and Edward a kiss from me, and ask George if he has got a new song for me. ’Tis really very kind of my Aunt to ask us to Bath again; a kindness that deserves a better return than to profit by it. Yours ever,
Faversham, Kent.
