paign or two;
and whether that would not be better than dawdling about at routs and
card-parties in London? I said, I would like to go with all my heart,
but was an only son now, on leave from my mother, and belonged to our
estate in Virginia. His Royal Highness said, Mr. Braddock had wrote home
accounts of Mrs. Esmond's loyalty, and that he would gladly serve me.
Mr. Wolfe and I have waited on him since, at his Royal Highness's house
in Pall Mall. The latter, who is still quite a young man, made the Scots
campaign with his Highness, whom Mr. Dempster loves so much at home. To
be sure, he was too severe: if anything can be top severe against rebels
in arms.

"Mr. Draper has had half the Stock, my late Papa's property, transferred
to my name. Until there can be no doubt of that painful loss in our
family which I would give my right hand to replace, the remaining stock
must remain in the trustees' name in behalf of him who inherited it.
Ah, dear mother! There is no day, scarce any hour, when I don't think of
him. I wish he were by me often. I feel like as if I was better when I
am thinking of him, and would like, for the honour of my family, that he
was representing of it here instead of--Honored madam, your dutiful and
affectionate son, HENRY ESMOND WARRINGTON."

"P.S.--I am like your sex, who always, they say, put their chief news in
a poscrip. I had something to tell you about a person to whom my heart
is engaged. I shall write more about it, which there is no hurry. Safice
she is a nobleman's daughter, and her family as good as our own."

"CLARGIS STREET, LONDON, October 23, 1756.

"I think, my good sister, we have been all our lives a little more than
kin and less than kind, to use the words of a poet whom your dear father
loved dearly. When you were born in our Western Principallitie, my
mother was not as old as Isaac's; but even then I was much more than old
enough to be yours. And though she gave you all she could leave or give,
including the little portion of love that ought to have been my share,
yet, if we can have good will for one another, we may learn to do
without affection: and some little kindness you owe me, for your son's
sake; as well as your father's, whom I loved and admired more than any
man I think ever I knew in this world: he was greater than almost all,
though he made no noyse in it. I have seen very many who have, and,
believe me, have found but few with such good heads and good harts as