Mr.--- will take this letter to England.

He is a pretty-looking and pretty behaved young man, apparently constructed without a backbone; by which I don't allude to his corporal spine, which is all right enough, but to his character.
"I get on here after a fashion; but now that Mary D.has left Brussels, I have nobody to speak to, for I count the Belgians as nothing.

Sometimes I ask myself how long shall I stay here; but as yet I have only asked the question; I have not answered it.

However, when I have acquired as much German as I think fit, I think I shall pack up bag and baggage and depart.

Twinges of home-sickness cut me to the heart, every now and then.