...strapped on too tightly for throwing off; but the straps do not gall as they once did; in fact, I believe I am rather better, and certainly I have not been...only got through the first chapter. You would wonder now much happier steady occupation makes us, and how smoothly we all get along. Directly after breakfast...

...and certainly I have not been happier for many a year. Last week, too, I fairly began — a book.1 Heaven only knows what it will turn to, but I have...along. Directly after breakfast the good wife and the Doctor2 retire upstairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's workbox, where...

...and certainly I have not been happier for many a year. Last week, too, I fairly began — a book.1 Heaven only knows what it will turn to, but I have...along. Directly after breakfast the good wife and the Doctor2 retire upstairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's workbox, where...

...Last week, too, I fairly began — a book. 1 Heaven only knows what it will turn to, but I have gworn to finish it. You shall hear about it as it proceeds,...after breakfast the good wife and the Doctor* retire up-stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box, where a spunk of...

...— a book.i Hcavon only knows what it will turn to, but I have sworn to finish it. You shall hoar about it as it proceeds, but as yet we are only got...Directly after breakfast the good wife and the Doctor 2 retire upstairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's workbox, where a...

...at last, and though only a now// may be one of those that are read by " Some in Middlebie Parishin." You shall hear about it as it proceeds ; but as yet...smoothly we all get along. Directly after breakfast, the "Goodwife" and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire upstairs to the drawing-room, a little...

...Alexander. Last week (he writes) I fairly began a book. Heaven only knows what it will turn to. ... You would wonder how much happier steady occupation...Directly after breakfast the good wife and the doctor (John Carlyle) retire upstairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's work-box,...

...writes to Alexander Carlyle: "J^ast week, too, I fairly began - a Book [ie, Wotton Reinfred]\ . . . You shall hear about it, as it proceeds; but as yet we are only got thro' the first chapter".3 In the first chapter, Wotton reflects: " '. . . darkness and the shadow...