A s would have remained so long abroad would you have consented that he should have gone? I recollected myself a moment, and then spoke the real dictates of my Heart. If you had known said a person to me the other day that Mr.
Yet a cruel world too often injures my feel ings, by wondering how a person possesst of domestick attachments can sacrifice them by absenting himself for years. The unbounded confidence I have in your attachment to me, and the dear pledges of our affection, has soothed the solitary hour, and renderd your absence more supportable for had I have loved you with the same affection, it must have been misiry to have doubted. I cannot sometimes refrain considering the Honours with which he is invested as badges of my unhappiness.
I look back to the early days of our acquaintance and Friendship, as to the days of Love and Innocence and with an undiscribable pleasure I have seen near a score of years roll over our Heads, with an affection heightned and improved by time-nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the Image of the dear untittled man to whom I gave my Heart. There are few occurences in this Northen climate at this Season of the year to divert or entertain you-and in the domestick way should I draw you the picture of my Heart, it would be what I hope you still would Love tho it containd nothing New the early possession you obtained there and the absolute power you have ever mantaind over it leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. Gray and some others-and I had just written you so largely by a vessel bound to France, the General Galvaye, 2 that I had nothing New to say. I have omited writing by the last opportunity to Holland because I had but small Faith in the designs of the owners or passengers.
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