ntes your Comeing

"I am Glad to hear you are Both Well and we are the same."

The nieces remained firm, and from the following letter it is plain the
aunt gave way. The dog motive is repeated _pianissimo_, and is not
returned to--not at least by Mrs. Newton.

"DEAR MISS ---, I Receve your Letter on Thursday i Whent to your Aunt
and i see her and She is a Greable to everry thing i asked her and
seme so vary Much Please to see you Both Next Tuseday and she has sent
for the Faggots to Day and she Will Send for the Coles to Morrow and i
will Go up there to Morrow Morning and Make the Fiers and Tend to the
Beds and sleep in it Till you Come Down your Aunt sends her Love to
you Both and she is Quite well your Aunt Wishes you wold Write againe
Before you Come as she ma Expeckye and the Dog is not to Gointo the
Parlor a Tall

"your Aunt kind Love to you Both & hopes you Wonte Fail in Coming
according to Prommis

MRS NEWTON."

From a later letter it appears that the nieces did not pay their visit
after all, and what is worse a letter had miscarried, and the aunt sat up
expecting them from seven till twelve at night, and Harry had paid for
"Faggots and Coles quarter of Hund. Faggots Half tun of Coles 1_l._
1_s._ 3_d._" Shortly afterwards, however, "She" again talks of coming up
to London herself and writes through her servant--

"My Dear girls i Receve your kind letter & I am happy to hear you ar
both Well and I Was in hopes of seeing of you Both Down at My House
this spring to stay a Wile I am Quite well my self in Helth But vary
Low Spireted I am vary sorry to hear the Misforting of Poor charles &
how he cum to flie in the Fier I cannot think. I should like to know
if he is dead or a Live, and I shall come to London in August & stay
three or four daies if it is agreable to you. Mrs. Newton has lost
her mother in Law 4 day March & I hope you send me word Wather charles
is Dead or a Live as soon as possible, and will you send me word what
Little Betty is for I cannot make her out."

The next letter is a new handwriting, and tells the nieces of their
aunt's death in the the following terms:--

"DEAR MISS ---, It is my most painful duty to inform you that your
dear aunt expired this morning comparatively easy as Hannah informs me
and in so doing restored her soul to the custody of him whom she
considered to be alone worthy of its care.