196 REMINISCENCES OF 



posed to be a ' Binks '. How nice for you having 

 your mother and sisters so near. We have been a 

 large party here for some time — Mrs. Beech and her 

 children, etc., etc. Do you recollect a cousin of 

 mine, the youngest Miss Williams, a good-looking 

 a^irl ? She is sfc^nor to be married to Sandbars. 

 They were staying here. I asked him on purpose 

 to meet her as I knew he was sweet, and it, i.e., the 

 proposal came off here last week. The Bird^ I really 

 could not tie up : it was so very far off that I could 

 not spare the time — some forty miles from a railroad. 

 I shall be charmed to pay you a visit some time, and 

 see your new country. Write here ; I remain till about 

 the 15th, and then take my sisters to Eaton Place to 

 pack up and give up the house there as they have let it. 

 " Mind my advice. 



" Yours ever, 



" J. Madocks. 



" Watkin is far from well, and is gone to town 

 for advice. He will very likely have to go to Ger- 

 many for two months." 



I wrote to my wife : — 



" Stratton Audley, "jth October, 1855. 



" I begin to see a little daylight. I have got 

 Cross disposed of, and now my hackles are risings 

 and I can speak plain English to his she-devil with- 

 out distressing him. On my return home to-night I 

 found she had not been out of bed for two days, so I 



1 Felton Hervey, late 13th Light Dragoons ; he was Inspector of 

 Prisons in Ireland. He was about to get married. 



