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intend to procure a person who shall take it entirely 

 off my hands for the present season, as certainly I 

 shall not go again to the play for a long time. The 

 reason I will tell you when we meet. I wish Miss 

 Flayman was now with me, as she is entertaining and 

 of high spirits, and at Kensington she is as a lost 

 good between the many entertaining and pleasant 

 people I meet there. Even the snow don't prevent 

 me from walking. I have only been two days con- 

 fined to my room. It is very true that a certain 

 portfolio has been very much increased since my 

 'sujour in this little cabane.' I am now about writing 

 a novel, of which the scene lies in Greece, and the 

 topography of Mr Gell's book will be of very great use 

 to me to make it as probable as possible. 



"I expect Mrs Pole in ten days. Poor dear Mrs 

 Beauclerk does nothing but writing, and plaguing me 

 to death with her unentertaining letters. I answered 

 her for once, and told her that from my fireside, and 

 the snow on the top house, and Mrs Leslie's witti- 

 cisms, I could not make out any sort of suitable letter 

 to a friend ; but, unmercifully, she has answered me 

 immediately, two instead of one. 



" Now I think it is high time that I also close my 

 letter, as otherwise I fear you would also accuse me 

 as I did Mrs Beauclerk, on the fluency of my pen 

 and the sterility of subjects ; and believe me only 

 your sincere and affectionately, C. P." 



In 1811, the Regent having broken with his wife's 

 political and personal friends, and kept the Liver- 

 pools and Perec vals in office, all of that party, except 

 Canning, Ward, and Granville Lcveson, gave up the 



