poor Lady Berkeley, to invite me to Berkeley Castle this winter; and now it
grieves my heart: she says, she hopes my lord is in a fair way of
recovery;[24] poor lady! Well, now I go to MD's letter: faith, it is all
right; I hoped it was wrong. Your letter, N.3, that I have now received, is
dated Sept. 26; and Manley's letter, that I had five days ago, was dated Oct.
3, that's a fortnight difference: I doubt it has lain in Steele's office, and
he forgot. Well, there's an end of that: he is turned out of his place;[25]
and you must desire those who send me packets, to enclose them in a paper
directed to Mr. Addison, at St. James's Coffee-house: not common letters, but
packets: the Bishop of Clogher may mention it to the Archbishop when he sees
him. As for your letter, it makes me mad: slidikins, I have been the best
boy in Christendom, and you come with your two eggs a penny.--Well; but stay,
I will look over my book: adad, I think there was a chasm between my N.2 and
N.3. Faith, I will not promise to write to you every week; but I will write
every night, and when it is full I will send it; that will be once in ten
days, and that will be often enough: and if you begin to take up the way of
writing to Presto, only because it is Tuesday, a Monday bedad it will grow a
task; but write when you have a mind.--No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no--Agad,
agad, agad, agad, agad, agad; no, poor Stellakins.[26] Slids, I would the
horse were in your--chamber! Have not I ordered Parvisol to obey your
directions about him? And han't I said in my former letters that you may
pickle him, and boil him, if you will? What do you trouble me about your
horses for? Have I anything to do with them?--Revolutions a hindrance to me
in my business? Revolutions to me in my business? If it were not for the
revolutions, I could do nothing at all; and now I have all hopes possible,
though one is certain of nothing; but to-morrow I am to have an answer, and am
promised an effectual one. I suppose I have said enough in this and a former
letter how I stand with new people; ten times better than ever I did with the
old; forty times more caressed. I am to dine to-morrow at Mr. Harley's; and
if he continues as he has begun, no man has been ever better treated by