Yesterday was a day of events--little, but pleasant. I went in
the morning to the Institution, and in the course of the day
analysed the water, and sent an account of it to Mr. Hatchett.
Mr. Fisher I did not see. Mr. Lawrence called in, and behaved
with his usual generosity. He had called in the early part of
the week, and, finding that I should be at the Institution on
Saturday only, came up, as I have already said, and insisted
on my accepting two ten-pound bank-notes for the information
he professed to have obtained from me at various times. Is not
this handsome? The money, as you know, could not have been at
any time more acceptable; and I cannot see any reason, my dear
love, why you and I should not regard it as another proof,
among many, that our trust should without a moment’s reserve be
freely reposed on Him who provideth all things for His people.
Have we not many times been reproached, by such mercies as
these, for our caring after food and raiment and the things
of this world? On coming home in the evening, _i.e._, coming
to Paternoster Row home, I learned that Mr. Phillips had seen
C., and had told her we should not leave London until Monday
evening. So I shall have to-morrow to get things ready in,
and I shall have enough to do. I fancy we are going to a large
mansion and into high company, so I must take more clothes.
Having the £20, I am become bold....
And now, how do my dear wife and mother do? Are you
comfortable? are you happy? are the lodgings convenient, and
Mrs. O. obliging? Has the place done you good? Is the weather
fine? Tell me all things as soon as you can. I think if you
write directly you get this it will be best, but let it be a
long letter. I do not know when I wished so much for a long
letter as I do from you now. You will get this on Tuesday, and
any letter from you to me cannot reach Swansea before Thursday
or Friday--a sad long time to wait. Direct to me, Post Office,
Swansea; or perhaps better, to me at -- Vivian Esq., Marino,
near Swansea, South Wales....
And now, my dear girl, I must set business aside. I am tired
of the dull detail of things, and want to talk of love to you;
and surely there can be no circumstances under which I can have
more right. The theme was a cheerful and delightful one before
we were married, but it is doubly so now. I now can speak, not
of my own heart only, but of both our hearts. I now speak, not
with any doubt of the state of your thoughts, but with the
fullest conviction that they answer to my own. All that I can
now say warm and animated to you, I know that you would say to
me again. The excess of pleasure which I feel in knowing you
mine is doubled by the consciousness that you feel equal joy in
knowing me yours.
[Sidenote: FROM HUSBAND TO WIFE.]
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