But Finding Myself Grow Better Immediately On My Return
From The Cassine To My Own House, I Would Not Put Myself To The
Trouble And Expence Of A Further Removal.
I think I have now communicated all the particulars relating to
Nice, that are worth knowing; and perhaps many more than you
desired to know:
But, in such cases, I would rather be thought
prolix and unentertaining, than deficient in that regard and
attention with which I am very sincerely, - Your friend and
servant.
LETTER XXV
NICE, January 1, 1765.
DEAR SIR, - It was in deference to your opinion, reinforced by my
own inclination, and the repeated advice of other friends, that I
resolved upon my late excursion to Italy. I could plainly
perceive from the anxious solicitude, and pressing exhortations
contained in all the letters I had lately received from my
correspondents in Britain, that you had all despaired of my
recovery. You advised me to make a pilgrimage among the Alps, and
the advice was good. In scrambling among those mountains, I
should have benefited by the exercise, and at the same time have
breathed a cool, pure, salubrious air, which, in all probability,
would have expelled the slow fever arising in a great measure
from the heat of this climate. But, I wanted a companion and
fellow traveller, whose conversation and society could alleviate
the horrors of solitude. Besides, I was not strong enough to
encounter the want of conveniences, and even of necessaries to
which I must have been exposed in the course of such an
expedition.
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