till I come back: patience is a gay thing as, etc. I hear nothing of Lord
Mountjoy's coming for Ireland. When is Stella's birthday? in March? Lord
bless me, my turn at Christ Church;[33] it is so natural to hear you write
about that, I believe you have done it a hundred times; it is as fresh in my
mind, the verger coming to you; and why to you? Would he have you preach for
me? O, pox on your spelling of Latin, Johnsonibus atque, that is the way.
How did the Dean get that name by the end? 'Twas you betrayed me: not I,
faith; I'll not break his head. Your mother is still in the country, I
suppose; for she promised to see me when she came to town. I writ to her four
days ago, to desire her to break it to Lady Giffard, to put some money for you
in the Bank, which was then fallen thirty per cent. Would to God mine had
been here, I should have gained one hundred pounds, and got as good interest
as in Ireland, and much securer. I would fain have borrowed three hundred
pounds; but money is so scarce here, there is no borrowing, by this fall of
stocks. 'Tis rising now, and I knew it would: it fell from one hundred and
twenty-nine to ninety-six. I have not heard since from your mother. Do you
think I would be so unkind not to see her, that you desire me in a style so
melancholy? Mrs. Raymond,[34] you say, is with child: I am sorry for it; and
so is, I believe, her husband. Mr. Harley speaks all the kind things to me in
the world; and, I believe, would serve me, if I were to stay here; but I
reckon in time the Duke of Ormond may give me some addition to Laracor. Why
should the Whigs think I came to England to leave them? Sure my journey was
no secret. I protest sincerely, I did all I could to hinder it, as the Dean
can tell you, although now I do not repent it. But who the Devil cares what
they think? Am I under obligations in the least to any of them all? Rot 'em,
for ungrateful dogs; I will make them repent their usage before I leave this
place. They say here the same thing of my leaving the Whigs; but they own
they cannot blame me, considering the treatment I have had. I will take care
of your spectacles, as I told you before, and of the Bishop of Killala's; but
I will not write to him, I have not time. What do you mean by my fourth,