* * * * * _From Mrs. Casaubon to Mrs. Forth_. June 5. DEAR LADY,—You will be surprised at receiving a letter from a stranger! How shall I address you—how shall I say what I ought to say? Our husbands are not unknown to each other, I may almost call them friends, but we have met only once. You did not see me; but I was at Magdalen a few weeks ago, and I could not help asking who you were, so young, so beautiful; and when I saw you so lonely among all those learned men my heart went out to you, for I too know what the learned are, and how often, when we are young, we feel as if they were so cold, so remote. Ah, then there come _temptations_, but they must be conquered.—We are not born to live for ourselves only, we must learn to live for others—ah! not for _Another_! Some one {133} we both know, a lady, has spoken to me of you lately. She too, though you did not know it, was in Magdalen Walk on Sunday evening when the bells were chiming and the birds singing. She saw you; you were not alone! Mr. Rivers (I am informed that is his name) was with you. Ah, stop and think, and hear me before it is too late. A word; I do not know—a word of mine may be listened to, though I have no right to speak. But something forces me to speak, and to implore you to remember that it is not for Pleasure we live, but for Duty. We must break the dearest ties if they do not bind us to the stake—the stake of all we owe to all! You will understand, you will forgive me, will you not? You will forgive another woman whom your beauty and sadness have won to admire and love you. You _will_ break these ties, will you not, and be free, for only in Renunciation is there freedom? He _must not_ come again, you will tell him that he must not.—Yours always, DOROTHEA CASAUBON. XVI. _From Euphues to Sir Amyas Leigh_, _Kt._ This little controversy on the value of the herb tobacco passed between the renowned Euphues and that early but assiduous smoker, Sir Amyas Leigh, well known to readers of “Westward Ho.” (He dissuadeth him from drinking the smoke of the Indian weed.)