s finding his way back again. I should not have
liked his being at Jenny Wade's [a cottager at Ardgillan, whom Miss
S---- pensioned]. In the present condition of Ireland, I should scruple
to quarter a dog in a poor person's cabin, giving them for his support
what they must needs feel might go some way towards the support of some
starving human being. In the stable or kennel of a rich house there is
sure to be that much spent, if not wasted, which may warrant the
addition of such another member to the establishment; and in your
sister's stables and offices there can be no wretch who would look with
envy upon the meal eaten by my dog. I would rather a great deal have
carried him to America, if I could have managed it, than left him with
any one but yourself. At Lenox everything, as well as everybody, has
plenty to eat; and he would have been cared for, for his own sake by the
young folks, and for mine by the old. But I fear he is so far provided
for that I shall never see him again, for his uneducated senses will
surely never suffice to guide him back to Orchard Street....

You will be glad, because I am very glad, that poor Hero has come back;
and I think his doing so exhibits considerable _nous_ in a brute so
brutally brought up as he has been. He returned with a bit of broken
string round his neck; so somebody had already appropriated him, and
tied him up, and he had effected his escape, and come home--much, I
think, to his credit. I was delighted to see him, and poor Mulliner
almost did a fit.

Good-bye, dearest Hal. Give Dorothy my best love. You shall have your
boots before I come, if Mr. W---- should call for them.

Ever as ever yours,
FANNY.

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, Thursday, 10th.

It is my opinion, my dear Hal, that you will see me again and again, and
several times again, before I leave England. I have just come to this
place from Manchester, and have to-day received offers of three new
engagements, and have every prospect therefore of being detained until
the beginning of next month, and so beholding your well-beloved visage
before I set off on my travels; though, whenever I do go, it will
certainly be from Folkestone, and not Dover.

I left the Scotts this morning with deep regret. Mr. Scott has not been
well during this last visit I have paid them, and I was much shocked to
h