take things
easily, and I don't feel anxious about his decision. I act in
"Fazio" Monday and Wednesday, and Friday and Saturday Mrs. Beverley
and Belvidera at Brighton.

I was inexpressibly relieved by receiving a letter from my brother, and
the intelligence that if I answered him he would be able to receive my
reply, which I made immediate speed to send him.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET.
DEAR MRS. JAMESON,

My brother John is alive, safe and well, in Gibraltar. You deserve
to know this, but it is all I can say to you. My mother has
suffered so much that she hardly feels her joy; it has broken her
down, and I, who have borne up well till now, feel prostrated by
this reprieve. God be thanked for all his mercies! I can say no
more.

F. A. K.

CHAPTER XIX.

GREAT RUSSELL STREET, February 7, 1831.
MY DEAR H----,

I found your lecture waiting for me on my return from Brighton; I
call it thus because if your two last were less than letters your
yesterday's one is more; but I shall not attempt at present to
follow you to the misty heights whither our nature tends, or dive
with you into the muddy depths whence it springs. I have heard from
my brother John, and now expect almost hourly to see him. The
Spanish revolution, as he now sees and as many foresaw, is a mere
vision. The people are unready, unripe, unfit, and therefore
unwilling; had it not been so they would have done their work
themselves; it is as impossible to urge on the completion of such a
change before the time as to oppose it when the time is come. John
now writes that, all hope of rousing the Spaniards being over, and
their party consequently dispersing, he is thinking of bending his
steps homeward, and talks of once more turning his attention to the
study of the law. I know not what to say or think. My cousin,
Horace Twiss, was put into Parliament by Lord Clarendon, but the
days of such parliamentary patronage are numbered, and I do not
much deplore it, though I sometimes fancy that the House of
Commons, could it by any means have been opened to him, might
perhaps have been the best sphere for John. His natural abilities
are brilliant, and his eloquence,