I Believe It
Was Half Envy; For My Handsome Driver Was As Pleased, And Then As
Disappointed, As A Young Lady About Her First Ball, And Obviously
Had No Religious Scruples Of His Own On The Subject.
The weather
is very delightful now - hot, but beautiful; and the south-easters,
though violent, are short, and not cold.
As in all other
countries, autumn is the best time of year.
April 15th. - Your letters arrived yesterday, to my great delight.
I have been worrying about a ship, and was very near sailing to-day
by the Queen of the South at twenty-four hours' notice, but I have
resolved to wait for the Camperdown. The Queen of the South is a
steamer, - which is odious, for they pitch the coal all over the
lower deck, so that you breathe coal-dust for the first ten days;
then she was crammed - only one cabin vacant, and that small, and on
the lower deck - and fifty-two children on board. Moreover, she
will probably get to England too soon, so I resign myself to wait.
The Camperdown has only upper-deck cabins, and I shall have fresh
air. I am not as well as I was at Caledon, so I am all the more
anxious to have a voyage likely to do me good instead of harm.
I got my cart and Choslullah photographed after all. Choslullah
came next day (having got rid of his pious friend), quite resolved
that 'the Missis' should take his portrait, so I will send or bring
a few copies of my beloved cart.
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