As it is I like it very much.

I like the quiet! the lying at length on a sofa, in an absolute silence, nobody speaking for hours together (Robert rides a great deal), not a chance of morning visitors, no voices under the windows.

The repose would help me much, if it were not that circumstances of pain and fear walk in upon me through windows and doors, using one's own thoughts, till they tremble.

Pen has had an abbe to teach him Latin, and his pony to ride on, and he and Robert are very well and strong, thank God.
Thank you for your words on spiritualism.

I have not _yet_ seen the last 'Cornhill.' It pleases me that Thackeray has had the courage to maintain the facts before the public; I think _much the better of him_ for doing so.