know my situation sufficiently not to be ignorantthan¹ in me Mirth would be improper & I knowmy own Heart^{too well not} well enough to be sensible thatit would be unnatural. You must not expect News for we see no one with whom we are in theleast acquainted, or in whose proceedings we haveany Interest. You must not expect Scandalfor by the same rule we are equally debarredeither from hearing or inventing it. – You mustexpect from me nothing but the melancholyeffusions of a broken Heart which is ever re::verting to the Happineſs it once enjoyed andwhich ill supports its present Wretchedneſs.The Poſsibility of being able to write,^^{to speak,} to you ofmy loſst Henry will be a Luxury to me, & your