To cover this and some other little outstanding trifles, I have filled in the new bill for L500, making it due 23rd of May next.

Before that time, a certain accident will, I trust, have occurred to your impoverished friend.

By the by, I never told you how she went off from Gatherum Castle, the morning after you left us, with the Greshams.

Cart-ropes would not hold her, even though the duke held them; which he did, with all the strength of his ducal hands.

She would go to meet some doctor of theirs, and so I was put off for that time; but I think that the matter stands in a good train.
Do not lose a post in sending back the bill accepted, as Tozer may annoy you--nay, undoubtedly will, if the matter be not in his hand, duly signed by both of us, the day after to-morrow.