You, however, are not wholly guiltless in this matter.

My nameless offence was partly occasioned by Napier; and I have a very strong reason for wishing to keep Napier in good humour.

He has promised to be at Edinburgh when I take a certain damsel thither; to loop out for very nice lodgings for us in Queen Street; to show us everything and everybody; and to see us as far as Dunkeld on our way northward, if we do go northward.

In general I abhor visiting; but at Edinburgh we must see the people as well as the walls and windows; and Napier will be a capital guide.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: June 14, 1833.
My dear Sister,--I do not know what you may have been told.

I may have grumbled, for ought I know, at not having more letters from you; but, as to being angry, you ought to know by this time what sort of anger mine is when you are its object.
You have seen the papers, I dare say, and you will perceive that I did not speak yesterday night.[The night of the First Reading of the India Bill.] The House was thin.