ABSTRACT
This morning, I thought I heard him go into the Drawing room just as I finished reading the last. (He breakfasts there while I am getting up in the adjoining bedroom). There is a door out of the one room into the other, thro' which I sometimes hand him a letter from you, while I am only half-dressed. So this morning, being in my petticoat, I opened this door, extending into the room a bare arm, with the letter, saying 'There is for you Dear'! Receiving no answer, I looked into the room, and so brought my whole petticoated person in evidence! And, my Heavens, it was not Mr C at all but George Cooke! Come to look at a Horse for me, that I was just about buying; my petticoat was red too! ... Will you give the Pet [her daughter Mary] my fondest remembrances / your loving and faithful/Henrietta Muff
TC Scotshrig
NLS 609.709,737
5 Cheyne Row / Wednesday [24 May 1865]
... And then I did the civil thing to Mrs Froude. Froude was in, and talked much of your 'gentleness and tenderness-oflate'!- and the 'much greater patience you had in speaking of every body and every thing' - And I thought to myself 'if he had only heard you, a few hours after that walk with him in which you had made such a lamb-like impression.' He expressed a wish to read Mrs Paulets nove1.And I have sent it to him. A very curious, clever, 'excessively ridiculous, and perfectly unnecessary' Book is Mrs Paulets novel! -so far as I have read in the ./trst volume! And Mrs Paulet herself I don't know what to make of! For I have seen her! In my saintly Forgiveness, and beautiful Pity, I left a card for her yesterday, and she came a few hours after, and Geraldine too came, and I was not left alone till half past ten; when it was too late to write ....
