letter this night, as told you just and no more in my last; for this must be
taken up in answering yours, saucebox. I believe I told you where I dined to-
day; and to-morrow I go out of town for two days to dine with the same company
on Sunday; Molesworth[1] the Florence Envoy, Stratford, and some others. I
heard to-day that a gentlewoman from Lady Giffard's house had been at the
Coffee-house to inquire for me. It was Stella's mother, I suppose. I shall
send her a penny-post letter[2] to-morrow, and contrive to see her without
hazarding seeing Lady Giffard, which I will not do until she begs my pardon.

22. I dined to-day at Hampstead with Lady Lucy, etc., and when I got home
found a letter from Joe, with one enclosed to Lord Wharton, which I will send
to his Excellency, and second it as well as I can; but to talk of getting the
Queen's order is a jest. Things are in such a combustion here, that I am
advised not to meddle yet in the affair I am upon, which concerns the clergy
of a whole kingdom; and does he think anybody will trouble the Queen about
Joe? We shall, I hope, get a recommendation from the Lord Lieutenant to the
trustees for the linen business, and I hope that will do; and so I will write
to him in a few days, and he must have patience. This is an answer to part of
your letter as well as his. I lied; it is to-morrow I go to the country, and
I won't answer a bit more of your letter yet.

23. Here is such a stir and bustle with this little MD of ours; I must be
writing every night; I can't go to bed without a word to them; I can't put out
my candle till I have bid them good-night: O Lord, O Lord! Well, I dined the
first time to-day, with Will Frankland and his fortune: she is not very
handsome. Did I not say I would go out of town to-day? I hate lying abroad
and clutter; I go tomorrow in Frankland's chariot, and come back at night.
Lady Berkeley has invited me to Berkeley Castle, and Lady Betty Germaine[3] to
Drayton in Northamptonshire; and I'll go to neither. Let me alone, I must
finish my pamphlet. I have sent a long letter to Bickerstaff:[4] let the