I feel my cheeks are painfully flushed, and therefore I will obey her gentle hint.

Farewell, my Emmeline; may you long be spared the sorrows that have lately wrung the heart of your attached and constant friend, MARY GREVILLE.
_From Mrs.Hamilton to Miss Greville_.
London, March 20th.
Your letter to Emmeline, my dear young friend, I have read with feelings both of pain and pleasure, and willingly, most willingly, do I comply with your request, that I would write to you, however briefly.

Your despondency is natural, and yet it is with delight I perceive through its gloom those feelings of faith and duty, which your sense of religion has made so peculiarly your own.

I sympathise, believe me, from my heart, in those trials which your very delicate health renders you so little able to bear.

I will not endeavour by words of consolation to alleviate their severity, for I know it would be in vain.