all cases of slight fractures, cuts, bruises, etc., if the
patient is temperate and healthy, and has no constitutional tendency to
fever or inflammation, the evil can be remedied by cold water bandages
and rest.

Give my dear love to my dear Dorothy and your dear Dorothy. I shall be
happy with you both, for she is quite too good to be jealous of.

God bless you, dear.

I am ever yours,
FANNY.

ORCHARD STREET, Sunday, 4th.
MY DEAREST HAL,

First of all let me tell you, what I am sure you will be glad to learn,
that E---- S---- is in England. You will imagine how glad I was to see
him. I am very fond of him, have great reliance on his mind as well as
his heart; and then he seems like something kind and dependable
belonging to me--the only thing of the kind that I possess, for my
sister is a woman, and you know I am heartily of opinion that we are the
weaker sex, and that an efficient male protector is a tower of strength.

In seeing E----, too, I saw, as it were, alive again the happy past. He
seemed part of my sister and her children, and the blessed time I spent
with them in Rome, and it was a comfort to me to look at him....

Charles Greville had been out of town, and found the letter announcing
E----'s advent, and came up, very good-naturedly, dinnerless, to bring
me word of the good news. The next day, however, he was as cross as
possible (a way both he and his brother Henry have, in common with other
spoiled children) because I expressed some dismay when he said E----'s
obtaining a seat in Parliament was quite an uncertainty (I think Mr.
S---- contemplated standing for Kidderminster). Now, from all he had
said, and the letter he had written about it, I should have supposed
E----'s return to have been inevitable; but this is the sort of thing
people perpetually do who endeavor to persuade others that what they
themselves wish is likely to happen. E---- seems quite aware himself
that the thing is a great chance, but says that even if he does not get
a seat in Parliament, he shall not regret having come, as he wanted
change of air, is much the better for the journey, and has had the
satisfaction of seeing his sister in Paris. Nevertheless, if this effort
to settle himself to his mind in England proves abortive, I do not think
the Grevilles will get him back in a hurry agai