The Letters of Jane Austen

Saturday (O

eeable surprise to me to-day, and I have take

egan to suffer from the exercise or fatigue of travelling, and she was a good deal indisposed. She had not a very good night at Staines, but bore her journey better than I had expected, and at Basingstoke, where we st

of coming to Steventon in spite of Mary's reproaches, for he was here before breakfast and is now paying us a second visit. They were to have dined here to-day, but the weathe

except that our trunk had once nearly slipped off, and we

iss Wood, as usual, is going to town very soon, and will lay in a fresh stock. I gave 2s. 3d. a yard for my flannel, and I fancy it is not very good, but it is so disgraceful and contemptible an article in itse

e wine and closet, and twice since I began this letter have had orders to give in the kitchen. Our dinner was very good

I was not sorry to be busy. I have unpacked the gloves, and placed yours in your

at "Battleridge" is not to come out before January, and she is so little sat

dead child, some weeks before she expected, owing to a frig

, and indeed we found the roads all the way from Staines most disgracefully dirty. Steve

an she has enjoyed for a long time, and I flatter my

ty Dordy's remembrance of me is very pleasing to me,-foolishly pleasing, because I know it will be over so soon. My attachment to him will be more durable. I shall thi

we wish to have there. I believe the servants were very glad to see us Nanny was, I am sure. She confesses that it was very dull, and yet she had her child with her

both of us that he came so soon! Dame Bushell washes for us only one week more, as Sukey has got a place. John Steevens' wife undertakes our purification. She does not look as if anything she touched would ever be clean, but who knows? We do not s

for another year. He was very grateful, as well he might; their behavior throughout the whole affair has been particularly kind. Earle and his wife live in the most p

laudanum made her sleep a good deal, and upon the whole I think she is better. My father and I dined by ourselves. How st

d to ask how we are, in his way from Dummer, whither he has been conveying Miss Garrett, who is going to r

d a very good night, and

ve Fanny and Edward a kiss from me, and ask George if he has got a new song for me. 'Tis really very

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