The Cowpers are such good people too.

The visit to Brocket naturally interested us very much for our excellent Lord Melbourne's sake.

The park and grounds are beautiful.
I can't admit the Duke of Bedford[61] ever was radical; God knows! I wish everybody now was a little so! What _is_ to come hangs over me like a baneful dream, as you will easily understand, and when I am often happy and merry, comes and damps it all![62] But God's will be done! and it is for our best, we _must_ feel, though we can't feel it.

I can't say _how_ much we think of our little visit to you, God willing, next year.

You will kindly let our good old Grandmother[63] come there to see her dear Albert _once again_ before she dies, wouldn't you?
And you would get the Nemours to come?
And you would persuade the dear Queen[64] to come for a little while with Clementine?
Now farewell! Believe me, always, your most devoted Niece, VICTORIA R.
[Footnote 60: The house of Earl Cowper.] [Footnote 61: The Duke, who had formerly been M.P.