every thing, and every body, that, forgetful of a quarrel which I had with _Ady_. in the morning, I caught Lord Crayton by the arm, and, under pretence of asking his advice how to prepare for uncle's arrival, gave him such a _teeth-watering_ account of the old boy's investments in the 3 _per cent. Consols_, that milord stuck, for the rest of the evening, like bird-lime to my pensive sister, and almost overturned poor Sir Leonard Twig to _beau_ mamma down stairs; since when, he has never missed a day in visiting, riding with our coterie in the park; and in short I shall not be surprized if, before your return from the _land of darkness_, you see a paragraph in the Morning Post: but what should bring the Morning Post into the wilderness? I give myself immense credit for remembering ever since I performed the Druidical priestess at Lady Penguin's, and learned my evening's task for the occasion, that Annan is the Druid's name for your island of saints, and that it was held to be the dominions of night. It is _so à propos_! Well, but I was talking of Crayton and Adelaide. If indeed a London newspaper should meet your eyes while you are suffering _ostracism_, (I got _such_ credit for that stroke last night) I verily think it not improbable, that you will stumble ere long, upon, "It is rumoured in the higher circles, that Viscount Crayton is shortly to lead to the Hymeneal altar the lovely Miss A. Howard." What more you may see here-after, I cannot give you a hint of till you come. Poor Lionel Strangeways bores me to death with his _petits soins_. Sir Stephen (that odious name always sets me sneezing) haunts Grosvenor-square; and Annesley with whom you used to be so _lié_, and who, begging your pardon, is neither more nor less than _bête_, worries me to dance wherever I meet him. Adelaide, Crayton, Lord George, and I, made a _parti quarré_, in the park yesterday, when we met him quite _en polisson_. He had no servant, looked _bourgeois_; and though I am not ill-natured as you _know_, I was obliged to sham blindness, and to pass by without even a nod. This may cure _him_, and release _me_ from a _blister_. If he were not nephew to the Duke of Elsbury, there would be no bearing him; but every one knows the relationship, and therefore one is _safe_ in acknowledging him, though he is so horribly disagreeable. Directly after I gave him _the go by_, I recollected that perhaps he had heard from you since your letter to us of the 5th, and I might have asked how your cough is, but I did not think of it in time.