ticulars
of right hand and left. Mrs. Forester is not
careful enough of Susan's health. Susan ought not
to be walking out so soon after heavy rains,
taking long walks in the dirt. An anxious mother
would not suffer it. I like your Susan very much
indeed, she is a sweet creature, her playfulness
of fancy is very delightful. I like her as she is
now exceedingly, but I am not quite so well
satisfied with her behaviour to George R. At first
she seems all over attachment and feeling, and
afterwards to have none at all; she is so
extremely composed at the ball and so well
satisfied apparently with Mr. Morgan. She seems to
have changed her character.

You are now collecting your people delightfully,
getting them exactly into such a spot as is the
delight of my life. Three or four families in a
country village is the very thing to work on, and
I hope you will write a great deal more, and make
full use of them while they are so very favourably
arranged.

You are but _now_ coming to the heart and beauty
of your book. Till the heroine grows up the fun
must be imperfect, but I expect a great deal of
entertainment from the next three or four books,
and I hope you will not resent these remarks by
sending me no more.

* * * * *

They are not so much like the Papillons as I
expected. Your last chapter is very entertaining,
the conversation on genius, &c.; Mr. St. Julian
and Susan both talk in character, and very well.
In some former parts Cecilia is perhaps a little
too solemn and good, but upon the whole her
disposition is very well opposed to Susan's, her
want of imagination is very natural. I wish you
could make Mrs. Forester talk more; but she must
be difficult to manage and make entertaining,
because there is so much good common sense and
propriety about her that nothing can be made very
_broad_. Her economy and her ambition must not be
staring. The papers left by Mrs. Fisher are very
good. Of course one guesses something. I hope when
you have written a great deal mor