July 12, 1845.
You understand that it was not a resolution passed in favour of formality, when I said what I did yesterday about not going out at the time you were coming — surely you do; whatever you might signify to a different effect. If it were necessary for me to go out every day, or most days even, it would be otherwise; but as it is, I may certainly keep the day you come, free from the fear of carriages, let the sun shine its best or worst, without doing despite to you or injury to me — and that’s all I meant to insist upon indeed and indeed. Continue reading “#60”