Volume the Second: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, Add. MS. 59874
know my situation sufficiently not to be ignorantthan1 in me Mirth would be improper & I knowmy
own Hearttoo well notwell enough to be sensible thatit would be unnatural. You
must not expectNews 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
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