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As to the papal aggression debates, I am thoroughly sick of 

 the subject. The country is much misinformed on the true 

 state of the matter, and hardly knows what to be at. Our 

 friends the Eomanists are a compact little army, while we poor 

 Anglicans are quarrelling among ourselves, when we ought to 

 be facing the enemy. Still, if truth and justice be on our 

 side, as I believe they are, our blunders and want of tact will 

 be overruled in the end by the goodness of the cause. Lies are 

 for a day : Truth for eternity. We have only to look forward 

 for a sufficient length f time. 



To Mrs. Graij. 



Feast of Arthur de Wellington, 1851. 



I am glad you are coming in August instead of July, although 

 it is the time to meet numbers of tourists ; but this cannot be 

 helped. July is the worst month in the year for Killarney. 

 There is generally good weather in August, and sometimes a 

 stag-hunt on the lakes. 



Three ladies to one gentleman is better than two to one. 



I once took two ladies a travelling, and vowed I would never 

 do so again, for one was always in dudgeon, it being impossible 

 to be equally attentive to both on an Irish car, where we sit 

 back to back. 



If Asa will not give up sufficient time to the trip, say you 

 will no longer call him Asa dulcis, but Narthex. But I hope 

 better things. 



To Miss Harvey, New York. 



Liverpool, August 22, 1851. 



I owe you one, two, three letters, or more ; but you know I 

 never like writing during vacation, for I get out of my regular 

 routine ; and no matter what fine things I may be seeing, the 

 eye is filled and emptied again so fast that there is little time 

 for penning down its observations. 



Though I was a month in the neighbourhood of London 

 I saw very little of the " Great Show," Kew being eight miles 

 distant, and I could not always lay out my time (having busi- 

 ness to get through) so as to be near it at a leisure momeut ; I 



