solemnly and affectingly declares that _le simple necessaire_ is all
he requires, and here, in your vicinity, would unhesitatingly be
preferred by him to the most brilliant fortune in another _sejour_.

"If _he_ can say that, what must _I_ be not to echo it? I, who in
the bosom of my most chosen, most darling friends----"

DR. BURNEY TO MISS BURNEY.

"_May 1793._

"Dear Fanny,--I have for some time seen very plainly that you are
_eprise_, and have been extremely uneasy at the discovery. You must
have observed my silent gravity, surpassing that of mere illness and
its consequent low spirits. I had some thoughts of writing to Susan
about it, and intended begging her to do what I must now do for
myself--that is, beg, warn, and admonish you not to entangle
yourself in a wild and romantic attachment which offers nothing in
prospect but poverty and distress, with future inconvenience and
unhappiness...."

FROM MADAME D'ARBLAY TO MRS. ----.

"_August 2, 1793._

"Last Sunday (July 28) M^r and M^rs Lock, my sister and Captain
Phillips, and my brother Captain Burney, accompanied us to the altar
in Mickleham Church; since which the ceremony has been repeated in
the chapel of the Sardinian Ambassador, that if, by a
counter-revolution in France, M. d'Arblay recovers any of his
rights, his wife may not be excluded from their participation.

"You may be amazed not to see the name of my dear father upon this
solemn occasion; but his apprehensions from the smallness of our
income have made him cold and averse: and though he granted his
consent, I could not even solicit his presence."

FROM MADAME D'ARBLAY TO DR. BURNEY AFTER HIS FIRST VISIT TO HER AT
BOOKHAM.

"BOOKHAM, _August '94_.

It is just a week since I had the greatest gratification of its kind
I ever, I think, experienced:--so kind a thought, so sweet a
surprise as was my dearest father's visit! How softly and soothingly
it has rested upon my mind ever since!...

"How thankfully did I look back, the 28^th of last month, upon a
year that has not been blemished with one regretful moment!"

It was at Bookham that Madame d'Arblay wrote _Camilla_, and out of the
sale of the novel she built her cottage, Camilla Lacey, on a plot of
ground at West Humble leased to her by her friend Mr. Lock. _Camilla_,
which Horace Walpole th