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Oct. 20th.
I wrote to you by the last post, dearest Dot, & not knowing
you were at Bushy, till the following Monday, when your very
kind & affectionate letter, reached me, I directed it to Mr.
Curling's, so that it is very probable you may never receive
it. You may console yourself however for its loss, when I
tell you, that it contained little more than abuse, & now
that I find that you did not deserve all the names I honoured
you with, my conscience reproaches me for my base insinuations,
& I almost wish, as the only "amende honorable" in my power,
that you may never be condemned to wade through it. I am
delighted to find that my letters give dear Papa pleasure,
& all the foolish succes I have here, never have, & never
will give me one half the proud feeling of satisfaction, that
I experienced at that part of your kind epistle, in which you
so good-naturedly informed me, that he was pleased with my
correspondence. I am only sorry that Paris now affords me
such trifling materials & so few subjects likely to interest
him. We dined yesterday at the Duke of Wellington's, a wedding
feast in honour of General & Lady Sarah Maitland. They
were only married 5 days previously, & in a manner, not in my
option, very creditable to either. As I informed you in
my last, we expected to have had some scenes, and I really
went in fear & trembling, lest some of the parties should be
overcome. However I was quite mistaken, for had they been
married 50 years, they could not have conducted themselves