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My dear Eliza | My dear Eliza | ||
Your letter has indeed struck me with a <u>double surprize</u>. – of the first I shall not speak at present, because I feel perhaps a little too like the honest old servant, you mention, to relish it <u>on the sudden</u> | Your letter has indeed struck me with a <u>double surprize</u>. – of the first I shall not speak at present, because I feel perhaps a little too like the honest old servant, you mention, to relish it <u>on the sudden</u> | ||
| − | as to your projected Travels to the south, I am, in Truth, surprized & allow me to say <u>a little hurt</u>, that you could in <u>any degree settle</u> such a Project, which, you must know, would agitate my Feelings, in no common Manner, without first <u>consulting me</u> on a point, so important to each of us. I shall speak on this subject with that perfect <u>Sincer</u>ity, <u>Tende</u>rness & R<u>esoluti</u>on, which have ever prevailed in my Language & Conduct towards you, & I may say, towards every Creature, with whom I have had any kind of Intercourse. – When you have heard what I have to communicate on this Topic, I am persuaded, your own Goodness & Generosity of Heart will induce you to postpone your promised Visit to the old Countess to <u>another year</u>; & to chuse for your sea-bathing <u>this Autumn<u> some coast much nearer to you than Felpham — | + | as to your projected Travels to the south, I am, in Truth, surprized & allow me to say <u>a little hurt</u>, that you could in <u>any degree settle</u> such a Project, which, you must know, would agitate my Feelings, in no common Manner, without first <u>consulting me</u> on a point, so important to each of us. I shall speak on this subject with that perfect <u>Sincer</u>ity, <u>Tende</u>rness & R<u>esoluti</u>on, which have ever prevailed in my Language & Conduct towards you, & I may say, towards every Creature, with whom I have had any kind of Intercourse. – When you have heard what I have to communicate on this Topic, I am persuaded, your own Goodness & Generosity of Heart will induce you to postpone your promised Visit to the old Countess to <u>another year</u>; & to chuse for your sea-bathing <u>this Autumn</u> some coast much nearer to you than Felpham — |
It would be <u>utterly impossible</u> for me to be in Sussex, when you visit it, without having my spirits so agitated with inexpressible, & I must own painfully affectionate Inquietude about you, that I should be perfectly disabled from all profitable study – nor could I | It would be <u>utterly impossible</u> for me to be in Sussex, when you visit it, without having my spirits so agitated with inexpressible, & I must own painfully affectionate Inquietude about you, that I should be perfectly disabled from all profitable study – nor could I | ||
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My dear Eliza
Your letter has indeed struck me with a double surprize. – of the first I shall not speak at present, because I feel perhaps a little too like the honest old servant, you mention, to relish it on the sudden
as to your projected Travels to the south, I am, in Truth, surprized & allow me to say a little hurt, that you could in any degree settle such a Project, which, you must know, would agitate my Feelings, in no common Manner, without first consulting me on a point, so important to each of us. I shall speak on this subject with that perfect Sincerity, Tenderness & Resolution, which have ever prevailed in my Language & Conduct towards you, & I may say, towards every Creature, with whom I have had any kind of Intercourse. – When you have heard what I have to communicate on this Topic, I am persuaded, your own Goodness & Generosity of Heart will induce you to postpone your promised Visit to the old Countess to another year; & to chuse for your sea-bathing this Autumn some coast much nearer to you than Felpham —
It would be utterly impossible for me to be in Sussex, when you visit it, without having my spirits so agitated with inexpressible, & I must own painfully affectionate Inquietude about you, that I should be perfectly disabled from all profitable study – nor could I