LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN
the meantime I am, with many thanks for your trouble in making it, as well as marking my silk stockings,
Yours very affectionately,
A great deal of love from everybody.
Miss Austen, Steventon, Overton, Hants.
XIX
My dear Cassandra,
I am obliged to you for two letters, one from yourself and the other from Mary, for of the latter I knew nothing till on the receipt of yours yesterday, when the pigeon-basket was examined, and I received my due. As I have written to her since the time which ought to have brought me hers, I suppose she will consider herself, as I choose to consider, still in my debt. I will lay out all the little judgment I have in endeavouring to get such stockings for Anna as she will approve; but I do not know that I shall execute Martha’s commission at all, for I am not fond of ordering shoes; and, at any rate, they shall all have flat heels.
What must I tell you of Edward? Truth or falsehood. I will try the former, and you may
choose for yourself another time. He was better
