In 1727 she writes to him a profound and beautiful epistle, in terms which indicate that he had made her his confidante at the time, in his love for a young lady whom he had lately met in Worcestershire.

With an astonishment which increased with every word, I read this extraordinary epistle: "My Dear Mr. Godfrey: "I have been highly flattered by your interest in the affaire of the cabinet Boule, and admire most deeply your penetration in arriving at a conclusion so nearly correct regarding it.

Now the bearer of the second letter came in before the first, and later Titius received the epistle in regard to killing him.

I send you a frozen epistle; but it is winter and dead time of the year with me.

'No doubt,' he concluded his epistle, 'she will soon forget this early and unhappy attachment.

I will therefore close my epistle with the discussion of a case, which your lordship may think parallel to the species of behaviour I have recommended to your cultivation.

I tore it open, and found a very disquieting epistle.

One of the Emperor's subjects had insulted the French consul, M. Sourdeau, and Muley Suleiman addressed to him the following singular epistle.

My M.Y. drew up a short epistle, which was signed by us all, and forwarded to them: this was an entire relief to our minds.

[Footnote 7: She brought an affectionate epistle from M.A. Calame.

He broke the seal; the envelope contained a closely-written epistle.

" On ending this second epistle the same silence which had succeeded the reading of the first prevailed, until the lady with an arch expression, interrupted it by saying, "Harriet will, I think, soon grace the peerage.

* * I did, indeed, enjoy the Yearly Meeting's Epistle: it is a wholesome one in these days.

This opinion, in which Dr. Burney concurred, was sent to Frances in what she called a "hissing, groaning, cat-calling epistle.

I have kept age and infirmity at a distance, have even forgotten that the years were going by; and now I find myself an old woman all at once, and my golden dream has vanished.' Lady Kirkbank's reply came by return of post, and happily this gushing epistle had not to be submitted to Mary's eye.

Louisa again promised she would do her utmost to keep them from thinking she even suspected they had played her false;then cried, But tell me, my dear Leonora, were they not a little moved at the tender melancholy which, I perceive, ran thro' this epistle?

Therefore they received also from him a ring, so that they should have the means of sealing the epistles.

And then she is sure to omit a most substantial word in the second draught (for she never ventures an epistle without a foul copy first), which is obliged to be interlined,which spoils the neatest epistle, you know.

And then she is sure to omit a most substantial word in the second draught (for she never ventures an epistle without a foul copy first), which is obliged to be interlined,which spoils the neatest epistle, you know.

How good you are to carry out my request made seven years ago, and to write me this beautiful letter, after reading over and burning your former boyish epistle, returning to me my reply.

So after this he forged an epistle, which he pretended had been sent to him by Scipio, in which he announced that Caesar had been defeated and had perished in Africa and stated that the governorship of Syria had been assigned to him.

" The last and most difficult task he had to go thro', was the refusal he must give to Dorilaus, who had laid his commands on him in such express terms; and it was not without a good deal of blotting, altering, and realtering, he at length formed an epistle to him in these terms: To my more than father, my only patron, protector and benefactor, the most worthy DORILAUS.

" The latter was engaged on the closing sentence of his letter; but on hearing the intelligence which Diggory had to impart, he threw the unfinished epistle into his desk, and rose to his feet with an exclamation of astonishment.

'It is most merciful of you, certainly, my dear madame, to put one in mind of the existence of another world, while such as you have their own way in this one!' and thrusting the latter epistle into the fire, he tried to collect his thoughts.

So with stormy eyes and forced smiles the pair sat down to luncheon, and Zara handed him the epistle she carried in her hand.