of the way to G-. If I manage this, I think I shall
contrive very well. I shall reach B. by about five o'clock, and then
I shall have the cool of the evening for the walk. I have
communicated the whole arrangement to M. I desire exceedingly to see
both her and you. Good-bye.

C. B.
C. B.
C. B.
C. B.

"If you have any better plan to suggest I am open to conviction,
provided your plan is practicable."

"August 20th, 1840.

"Have you seen anything of Miss H. lately? I wish they, or somebody
else, would get me a situation. I have answered advertisements
without number, but my applications have met with no success.

"I have got another bale of French books from G. containing upwards of
forty volumes. I have read about half. They are like the rest,
clever, wicked, sophistical, and immoral. The best of it is, they
give one a thorough idea of France and Paris, and are the best
substitute for French conversation that I have met with.

"I positively have nothing more to say to you, for I am in a stupid
humour. You must excuse this letter not being quite as long as your
own. I have written to you soon, that you might not look after the
postman in vain. Preserve this writing as a curiosity in caligraphy--I
think it is exquisite--all brilliant black blots, and utterly
illegible letters. 'CALIBAN.'

"'The wind bloweth where it listeth. Thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth.' That, I
believe, is Scripture, though in what chapter or book, or whether it
be correctly quoted, I can't possibly say. However, it behoves me to
write a letter to a young woman of the name of E., with whom I was
once acquainted, 'in life's morning march, when my spirit was young.'
This young woman wished me to write to her some time since, though I
have nothing to say--I e'en put it off, day by day, till at last,
fearing that she will 'curse me by her gods,' I feel constrained to
sit down and tack a few lines together, which she may call a letter or
not as she pleases. Now if the young woman expects sense in this
production, she will find herself miserably disappointed. I shall
dress her a dish of salmagundi--I shall cook a hash--compound a
stew--toss up an _omelette soufflee a la Francaise_, and send it her
with my respects. The wind, which is very high up in ou