ABSTRACT
Prepare yourself, Charles, for a piece of excellent news. If you are as much my friend as I believe you to be, you must think it so. Lady Lucan is quite well! at foolish fellow, Humphrey, when he came to the Hall with an account of her illness, alarmed me causelessly: but I should not blame the poor fellow; since it was only his value for his lady that magni ed his fears, and represented her indisposition as a dangerous one. It was happy for me that I heard the intelligence in no other company than that of yourself, and the Melworth family; as I might, possibly, have had the severest sha s of ridicule levelled at me for discovering so much weakness upon a mother’s account.
