circumstance. Perhaps you may remember, or perhaps
you may forget, that Charles Street leads from the
Queen Square Chapel to the two Green Park Streets.

The houses in the streets near Laura Place I
should expect to be above our price. Gay Street
would be too high, except only the lower house on
the left-hand side as you ascend. Towards that my
mother has no disinclination; it used to be lower
rented than any other house in the row, from some
inferiority in the apartments. But above all
others her wishes are at present fixed on the
corner house in Chapel Row, which opens into
Prince's Street. Her knowledge of it, however, is
confined only to the outside, and therefore she is
equally uncertain of its being really desirable as
of its being to be had. In the meantime she
assures you that she will do everything in her
power to avoid Trim Street, although you have not
expressed the fearful presentiment of it which was
rather expected.

We know that Mrs. Perrot will want to get us into
Oxford Buildings,[120] but we all unite in
particular dislike of that part of the town, and
therefore hope to escape. Upon all these different
situations you and Edward may confer together, and
your opinion of each will be expected with
eagerness.

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I have now attained the true art of
letter-writing, which we are always told is to
express on paper exactly what one would say to the
same person by word of mouth. I have been talking
to you almost as fast as I could the whole of this
letter.

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My mother bargains for having no trouble at all in
furnishing our house in Bath, and I have engaged
for your willingly undertaking to do it all. I get
more and more reconciled to the idea of our
removal. We have lived long enough in this
neighbourhood; the Basingstoke balls are certainly
on the decline, there is something interesting in
the bustle of going away, and the prospect of
spending future summers by the sea or in Wales is
very delightful. F