he king at the theatre the other night. He looks just
like some of the German farmers papa and I saw in Pennsylvania.
They say he is very pious, and frowns on gambling, as well he
might for the good of his kingdom, and that he is determined
to do as his mother told him and be a real king. He doesn't look
as though he'd exactly know how. You should have heard him laugh
over a little silly joke, when one of the actors sat in a chair on
a make-believe baby and a ventriloquist squalled just like a
baby. But they says he's obstinate and the colonies can't make
him yield to their demands.

"People here think just as dear papa does, that England has helped
fight the battles of the colonies and protect them with the strong
arm of England--I tell 'em there are strong arms in the
colonies--and that they should help pay the taxes.

"It's all too profound for me, though I am sixteen and should be,
they tell me, a dignified young lady. Indeed aunt is planning to
have me introduced at court.

"I must tell you what a bore little Lord Nobury is getting to be.
It's partly Aunt Mogridge's fault. Anything with a title she loves
and, though she deplores the way young men gamble, and I think her
beautiful son--he's yet in Virginia, thank Heaven--hasn't much
money to squander, she boasts of his losses at 'hazard' to Lord
Nobury.

"He was the first specimen, Nobury, I mean, that I met. I hadn't
been at aunt's more than a day before he called. I'd been awfully
seasick on the voyage and the sight of him nearly brought on
another attack. It seemed that aunt had been singing my praises to
him before I arrived. Well, he bowed very low and, had he remained
in that posture, I might have liked him, for his clothes were
gorgeous; a coat of creamy velvet, a wonderful waistcoat with gold
embroidery, black velvet breeches, white silk stockings, shoes
with gold buckles and the lace at his wrists and neck was so fine
I was actually envious.

"He began to talk right away about the theatres. Of course I was
so ignorant of it all that I could only listen. He said I must see
Garrick at the Drury Lane and I hope I may.

"The little 'macaroni' is so short that he wears very high heels
and has his hair done up high in front. You ought to see the
wonderful and fearful things they do with their hair, both ladies
and gentlemen.

"After learning I didn't know anything about the