e.

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I do not like a lover speaking in the 3rd person;
it is too much like the formal part of Lord
Orville,[337] and, I think, is not natural. If
_you_ think differently, however, you need not
mind me. I am impatient for more, and only wait
for a safe conveyance to return this book.

[August 10, 1814.]

I like the name _Which is the Heroine_ very well,
and I dare say shall grow to like it very much in
time; but _Enthusiasm_ was something so very
superior that every common title must appear to
disadvantage. I am not sensible of any blunders
about Dawlish; the library was particularly
pitiful and wretched twelve years ago and not
likely to have anybody's publications. There is no
such title as Desborough either among dukes,
marquises, earls, viscounts, or barons. These were
your inquiries. I will now thank you for your
envelope received this morning.

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Your Aunt Cass is as well pleased with St. Julian
as ever, and I am delighted with the idea of
seeing Progillian again.

_Wednesday 17._--We have now just finished the
first of the three books I had the pleasure of
receiving yesterday. I read it aloud and we are
all very much amused, and like the work quite as
well as ever. I depend on getting through another
book before dinner, but there is really a good
deal of respectable reading in your forty-eight
pages. I have no doubt six will make a very
good-sized volume. You must be quite pleased to
have accomplished so much. I like Lord
Portman[338] and his brother very much. I am only
afraid that Lord P.'s good nature will make most
people like him better than he deserves. The whole
Portman family are very good, and Lady Anne, who
was your great dread, you have succeeded
particularly well with. Bell Griffin is just what
she should be. My corrections have not been more
important than before; here and there we have
thought the sense could be expressed in fewer
words, and I have scratched o