He does not care about the money, but he is much shocked and exasperated by the disrespect of the thing, as he well may.
I do not yet know the exact day of their departure, but I suppose it will be on the 5th, to be able to cross on the 6th.

I have already had some conversation with him, and mean to talk _a fond_ to him to-morrow.

My wish is to see you both happy and thoroughly united and of one mind, and I trust that both of you will ever find in me a faithful, honest, and attached friend.
As it is eleven o'clock at night, I offer you my respects, and remain, ever, my dearest Victoria, your devoted Uncle, LEOPOLD R.
Your poor Aunt fainted this morning; she is much given to this, but it was rather too long to-day.
[Pageheading: AMIABILITY OF THE PRINCE] _The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ BRUSSELS, _4th February 1840._ MY DEAREST VICTORIA,--I have now treated all the questions you wished me to touch upon with Albert, and I was much pleased with his amiable disposition.

At a certain distance explanations by letter are next to impossible, and each party in the end thinks the other unreasonable.
When he arrived he was rather exasperated about various things, and pretty full of grievances.

But our conversations have dissipated these clouds, and now there will only remain the new parliamentary events and consequences, which change a good deal of what one could reasonably have foreseen or arranged.