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But, before entering on the subject, let me first satisfy the anxiety of

your faithful bosoacy All the

accounts, I am happy to tell you, are likely to be amicably settled; but

the exact amount is not known as yet, only I can see, by my brother's

manner, that it is not less than we expected, and -school to learn acco is actually in hand But what

does it all avail toin the midst of

this wilderness ofaffection, with

the dis a second ti, with aiety ont to share, in skipping from tomb to

tomb in the breezy churchyard of Irvine, like butterflies in spring

flying from flower to flower, as a Wordsworth or a Wilson would express

it

We have got elegant lodgings at present in Norfolk Street, but et us removed to a more fashionable

part of the tohich, if the accounts were once settled, I think will

take place; and he proposes to hire a carriage for a whole ht be

one of our own; but my mother shakes her head, and says, "Andrew, dinna

be carri't" Froh they don't allow acy is worth the cos;--we have what is called a first and second floor,

a drawing-roo-rooant; and the carpet is the exact salintoun Castle Our landlady is indeed a lady,