its particular due. But this I believe I hinted to you once before;
and so will say no more upon this subject at present.

Robin says, you had but just deposited your last parcel when he took
it: for he was there but half an hour before, and found nothing. He
had seen my impatience, and loitered about, being willing to bring me
something from you, if possible.

My cousin Jenny Fynnett is here, and desires to be my bedfellow
to-night. So I shall not have an opportunity to sit down with that
seriousness and attention which the subjects of yours require. For
she is all prate, you know, and loves to set me a prating; yet comes
upon a very grave occasion--to procure my mother to go with her to her
grandmother Larking, who has long been bed-ridden; and at last has
taken it into her head that she is mortal, and therefore will make her
will; a work she was till now extremely averse to; but it must be upon
condition that my mother, who is her distant relation, will go to her,
and advise her as to the particulars of it: for she has a high
opinion, as every one else has, of my mother's judgment in all matters
relating to wills, settlements, and such-like notable affairs.

Mrs. Larking lives about seventeen miles off; and as my mother cannot
endure to lie out of her own house, she proposes to set out early in
the morning, that she might be able to get back again at night. So,
to-morrow I shall be at your devotion from day-light to day-light; nor
will I be at home to any body.

I have hinted before, that I could almost wish my mother and Mr.
Hickman would make a match of it: and I here repeat my wishes. What
signifies a difference of fifteen or twenty years; especially when the