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In making the arrangements by which Captain Lawton had been left, with Sergeant Hollister and twelve men, as a guard over the wounded, and heavy baggage of the corps, Dunwoodie had consulted not only the information which had been conveyed in the
letter
of Colonel Singleton, but the bruises of his comrade's body.
"Quite an extraordinary interruption," said the astonished Sitgreaves, "and a
letter
of very mysterious meaning."
The trooper was enjoined to vigilance, and the
letter
concluded with a compliment to his honor, zeal, and undoubted bravery.
"Ha!" cried the trooper; "then they have received a
letter
also."
The
letter
which the surgeon put into the hands of his messenger, as he ceased, was conceived in the following terms:-"If the fever has left Kinder, give him nourishment.
Without speaking, he placed a
letter
in the hand of Lawton, and led his charger to the stable.
A new stimulus was given to the Whartons by the intelligence conveyed in the
letter
of Dunwoodie; and Caesar, with his horses, was once more put in requisition.
Bring you tidings of mercy?""Here, Frances - here, Henry - here, dear cousin Jeanette," cried the youth, as with trembling hands he broke the seal; "here is the
letter
itself, directed to the captain of the guard.
"Here, indeed!" cried the major, "is an unexpected turn in the whole affair; but I understand it: Harper has got my letter, and already we feel his influence."
One would think that the situation of his friend would lower his spirits; surely Frances could not have given him the letter."
The trooper discharged his duty to the
letter
but with no little of the impatience that made part of his character when restrained from the attack.
The mouth of the cave was up the hillside--an opening shaped like a
letter
A. Its massive oaken door stood unbarred.
One day when I came in from the sheep, there was my father sitting with a
letter
in his hands, which was a very rare thing with us, except when the factor wrote for the rent.
Well, as we came in through the gates my eyes fell upon this stone heap, and there was a
letter
stuck in a cleft stick upon the top of it.
"There's a
letter
here from him," said my father, pointing to a note folded up on the table; "it was in his room.
The wrapper had not touched the ground before he turned, waving the
letter
over his head as if it had been a sabre.
I was brought to bed of a fine boy indeed, and a charming child it was; and when he heard of it he wrote me a very kind, obliging
letter
about it, and then told me, he thought it would look better for me to come away for London as soon as I was up and well; that he had provided apartments for me at Hammersmith, as if I came thither only from London; and that after a little while I should go back to the Bath, and he would go with me.
Here it was that I was one morning surprised with a kind but melancholy
letter
from my gentleman, intimating that he was very ill, and was afraid he should have another fit of sickness, but that his wife's relations being in the house with him, it would not be practicable to have me with him, which, however, he expressed his great dissatisfaction in, and that he wished I could be allowed to tend and nurse him as I did before.
I took a copy of this letter, and finding it lay at the house near a month and was not called for, I found means to have the copy of it put into his own hands at a coffee-house, where I had by inquiry found he used to go.
This
letter
forced an answer from him, by which, though I found I was to be abandoned, yet I found he had sent a
letter
to me some time before, desiring me to go down to the Bath again.
I found it so here, though good manners and justice in this gentleman kept him from carrying it on to any extreme but the short history of his part in this affair was thus: he perceived by my last letter, and by all the rest, which he went for after, that I was not gone to Bath, that his first
letter
had not come to my hand; upon which he write me this following:--'MADAM,--I am surprised that my letter, dated the 8th of last month, did not come to your hand; I give you my word it was delivered at your lodgings, and to the hands of your maid.
I was struck with this
letter
as with a thousand wounds, such as I cannot describe; the reproaches of my own conscience were such as I cannot express, for I was not blind to my own crime; and I reflected that I might with less offence have continued with my brother, and lived with him as a wife, since there was no crime in our marriage on that score, neither of us knowing it.
I sent my gentleman a short letter, therefore, that I had obeyed his orders in all things but that of going back to the Bath, which I could not think of for many reasons; that however parting from him was a wound to me that I could never recover, yet that I was fully satisfied his reflections were just, and would be very far from desiring to obstruct his reformation or repentance.
I told him No, not of any great consequence, but what might be done as well by
letter
from Dublin.
In this time he took his horses and three servants, and all his linen and baggage, and away he went, leaving a short but moving
letter
for me on the table, as follows:--'MY DEAR--I am a dog; I have abused you; but I have been drawn into do it by a base creature, contrary to my principle and the general practice of my life.
The truth is, the circumstances he was in, the passionate expressions of his letter, the kind, gentlemanly treatment I had from him in all the affair, with the concern he showed for me in it, his manner of parting with that large share which he gave me of his little stock left--all these had joined to make such impressions on me, that I really loved him most tenderly, and could not bear the thoughts of parting with him.
I gave him a direction how to write to me, though still I reserved the grand secret, and never broke my resolution, which was not to let him ever know my true name, who I was, or where to be found; he likewise let me know how to write a
letter
to him, so that, he said, he would be sure to receive it.
I had left directions in Lancashire, so that I had these letters, which he sent, conveyed to me; and during my recess at St. Jones's received a very obliging
letter
from him, assuring me that his process for a divorce from his wife went on with success, though he met with some difficulties in it that he did not expect.
While I was there, and before I was brought to bed, I received a
letter
from my trustee at the bank, full of kind, obliging things, and earnestly pressing me to return to London.
I returned an answer to his letter, and dated it at Liverpool, but sent it by messenger, alleging that it came in cover to a friend in town.
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