Jane Austen

The Letters of Jane Austen

HAVE just received yours and Mary's letter, and I thank you both, though their contents might haveeen more agreeable. I do not at all expect to see you on Tuesday, since matters have fallen out sonpleasantly; and if you are not able to return till after that day, it will hardly be possible for us toend for you before Saturday, though for my own part I care so little about the ball that it would beo sacrifice to me to give it up for the sake of seeing you two days earlier. We are extremely sorryor poor Eliza's illness. I trust, however, that she has continued to recover since you wrote, and thatou will none of you be the worse for your attendance on her. What a good-for-nothing fellowCharles is to bespeak the stockings! I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his life for it!