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CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, December 21st

Oh, it is three weeks since I wrote, but I have been too busy and too happy for journals I have been here ever since, gettingused to the fact that I can have no coronet onengaged to Robert

He has ways! Well, even if I really were as bad as I suppose I look, I could never want any one else He worships me, and lets me order him about, and then he orders me about, and that makes me have the loveliest thrills And if any one even looks at me in the street--which of course they always do--he flashes blue fire at them, and I feel--oh, I feel, all the time!

Lady Merrenden continues her sweet kindness to us, and her tact is beyond words, and now I often do what I used to wish to--that is, touch Robert's eyelashes with the tips of ers

It is perfectly lovely

Oh, what in the world is the good of anything else in life but being frantically in love as we are!

It all seee for breakfast, and nothing else every day, before I rand in the future, but every one has discovered I aht that than just to be a red-haired adventuress

Lady Katherine, even, has sent orm brooch and a cordial letter (I should now adorn her circle!) But oh, what do they allI know I ah and to live"

The duke and I are great friends He has ferreted out about mamma's mother, and it appears she was a Venetianlike that, who taught Lord de Brandreth's sisters--so perhaps Lady Ver was right after all, and far, far back in soe

Poor, dear Lady Ver! She has taken it very well after the first spiteful letter, and now I don't think there is even a tear at the corner of her eye

Lady Merrenden says it is just the tiets a new one, so perhaps she has now, and so that is all right

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