I  will  drink  tea  with  you  to-morrow — No,  but  I  won't :
\ou  and  your  cousins  shall  drink  tea  with  us — Do  you
hear?  I  won't  be  denied.  And  then  we'll  settle  how  it
shall  be.  I'll  tell  you  what,  my  dear — If,  on  my  brother's
return  from  Canterbury,  he  comes  to  us  at  Colnebrook,  we
will  call  him  to  account  for  all  his  reserves.  Here  is  this
affair  of  Pollexfen's :  how  might  it  have  ended  !  I  tremble
to  think  of  it — You'll  stand  by  me :  won't  you  ?  I  cannot
make  Lord  and  Lady  L of  my  party,  or  I  would  have  re-
belled before  now — But  you  antl  I,  my  dear,  I  warrant  you
— Yet  you  are  so  grave.  Were  you  always  such  a  grave,
such  a  wise,  sucli  a  verT/  wise  girl,  Harriet  ?  Was  your
grandfather  a  very  sententious  man  1  Was  his  name  Solo-
mon Shirley?

I  love  wisdom  as  well  as  any  body :  but  wisdom,  out  of
its  place,  is  a  prude,  my  dear.  How  I  ramble! — You'll
come  to-morrow — I  designed  but  two  lines.  Adieu.  Be-
lieve me  ever  yours,  C.  G.
