Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn, almost too handsome to be looked at.
I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.
We saw a countless number of post-chaises full of boys pass by yesterday morning, full of future heroes, legislators, fools, and villains. You have never thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese. I cannot bear not to be thanked.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
No, "said he, smiling," that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.
Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man.
He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him, goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
We spent Friday evening with our friends at the boarding-house, and our curiosity was gratified by the sight of their fellow-inmates, Mrs. Drew and Miss Hook, Mr. Wynne and Mr. Fitzhugh; the latter is brother to Mrs. Lance, and very much the gentleman. He has lived in that house more than twenty years, and poor man, is so totally deaf that they say he could not hear a cannon, were it fired close to him; having no cannon at hand to make the experiment, I took it for granted, and talked to him a little with my fingers, which was funny enough.
Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground, I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.