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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 

 girl ? She is going to be married to Sandbags. 

 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 1 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 1 5th, 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 rising, 

 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 i3th Light Dragoons ; he was Inspector of 

 Prisons in Ireland: He was about to get married. 



