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bis bail, and is off, fearing from tbe judge's manner tbat be would 

 be imprisoned — if he stood trial — five years.* So there will be no 

 trial at all at Lancaster. I hope, therefore, yet to be at Hollow 

 Oak. 



" Think of my bad luck in losing seven sovereigns from there 

 being a hole in my lecturing pantaloons. All the silver fell out of 

 the one pocket, which Blair picked up, but the sovereigns had 

 dropped forever through the other. 



" I will write as often as possible, and tell you all that I hear 

 about the various places and people. Kindest love to Johnny and 

 Mary, who will have their turn some day, and also to the lovely 

 girl and George Watson. 



" The chaise is at the gate, and is an open carriage. 



" I am, my dearest Jane, ever your affectionate husband, 



" John Wilson." 



"Kendal, August 23, 182G, 

 Wednesday Night, Twelve o'clock. 



" My beloved Jane : — The dinner is over, and all went well. 

 Your letter I have just received, of which more anon. Why did 

 you not write on Monday night ? but thank God it is come now. 

 We are all well, and my next, which will be a post between, shall 

 be a long, descriptive, full and particular account of every one 

 thing in the country. It is your own fault that this is not a long 

 letter, for my misery all day has been dreadful. Mr. Fleming was 

 with me all day, and was the kindest of friends ; and George Wat 

 son will, I am sure, write for you. 



" I shall see the Machells, who have returned home, and well, I 

 understand. Once more, God bless and protect you ! and get your 

 spectacles ready for next letter, which I shall have time to write at 

 length. Hitherto I have not had an hour. 



" To-morrow, at Elleray, I shall write an admirable epistle. 

 " Your affectionate husband, 



"John Wilson. 



" Love to Johnny, Mary, Umbs, and George Watson." 



* The two Mackeands were brothers, who had committed an atrocious murder on the inhabit 

 ajits of a wayside inn, in Lancashire. The " brother Wakefield" was no less a person than Edward 

 Gibbon Wakefield, whose shameful deception wove a strange romance around the life of Helen 

 Turner, and furnished to the annals of law one of the most peculiar cases that has ever been 

 recorded. 



