"_Saturday Night._ Just as my day had been filled with all the duties my God had graciously permitted and I was about to take a walk, dear Mrs. L. arrived, and on my telling her all strongly advised my _not_ returning the Duke his letters--which struck me forcibly, as I had asked the Lord to put it into her heart to advise me agreeably to His will. "On my return home I found a note from the Duke addressed to me in the third person, like the last, but thanking me for the trouble I had taken respecting his Men's Book Bill. Thank God my feelings are so subdued as to be resigned to His divine Will concerning seeing or hearing from him, and I heartily pray to be directed in every single particular, knowing if left to myself I cannot stand a moment in safety. "The Duke seems more indifferent respecting the return of his letters--consequently as dearest Mrs. L. so strongly advised my retaining them I mean to do so without noticing that formal note received to night, leaving everything as it stands in the Lord's Hands. Having cast my burthen upon the Lord all I now have to do is to dedicate my time more exclusively to my usual daily duties as before intended, endeavoring to recall perfectly to memory all my hymns--360--and the Gospels of St. Matthew and John, with my beautiful Psalms--which latter have been neglected more than either of the former, although none have been allowed so much time as if I had not been so occupied with the Duke. "_Sept. 22nd._ My disinclination to write to the Duke continues. O may the Lord bless him by quickening his dead soul and call him forth to glorify Him mightily for Christ's sake!