I must say Miss Bertram is strangely biassed by her prepossessions, for there are few handsomer men than poor Brown.

I had not seen him for a long time, and even in his strange and sudden apparition on this unhappy occasion, and under every disadvantage, his form seems to me, on reflection, improved in grace and his features in expressive dignity.
Shall we ever meet again?
Who can answer that question?
Write to me kindly, my dearest Matilda; but when did you otherwise?
Yet, again, write to me soon, and write to me kindly.

I am not in a situation to profit by advice or reproof, nor have I my usual spirits to parry them by raillery.
I feel the terrors of a child who has in heedless sport put in motion some powerful piece of machinery; and, while he beholds wheels revolving, chains clashing, cylinders rolling around him, is equally astonished at the tremendous powers which his weak agency has called into action, and terrified for the consequences which he is compelled to await, without the possibility of averting them.
'I must not omit to say that my father is very kind and affectionate.

The alarm which I have received forms a sufficient apology for my nervous complaints.

My hopes are, that Brown has made his escape into the sister kingdom of England, or perhaps to Ireland or the Isle of Man.