you enclosed to me, my Dear Charlotte and I will nowtell you what those reflections arewere.¹ I reflected thatif by this second Marriage Sir George should have asecond family, our fortunes must be considerablydiminished — that if his Wife should be of an ex--travagant turn, she would encourage him to perseverein that Gay & Diſsipated way of Life to which littleencouragement would be necessary, and which has Ifear already proved but too detrimental to hishealth and fortune — that she would now become Mistreſs of those Jewels which once adorned our Mother, and which Sir George had always promisedus — that if they did not come into PerthshireI should not be able to gratify my curiosity of behold::ing my Mother-in-law, and that if they did, Matilda