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My mind is not at ease; but I know not why I should infect you with its malady. Write, relate something pleasant; tell me what has happened to you last, and relieve the dissatisfaction I feel by your unaffected flow of gaiety. Adieu. Anna Wenbourne St. Ives to Louisa Clifton Chateau de Villebrun I cannot sufficiently applaud the resolute propriety of Frank, since our last conversation.
I will arrange my thoughts, collect my whole force, and make an essay which I am convinced cannot fail, unless by my fault. The task is perhaps the most severe I have ever yet undertaken. I will remember this, and I hope my exertions will be adequate. Adieu, my dear Louisa: and, when you come to this place, imagine me for a moment in your arms. Coke Clifton to Guy Fairfax Chateau de Villebrun
The occasion is a marriage, in the true French style, between my very good friend, the Marquis de Villebrun, an old fellow upwards of sixty, and a young creature of fifteen; a child, a chit, just taken out of a convent; in which, but for this or some such preposterous match, she might have remained, till time should have bestowed wrinkles and ugliness as bountifully upon her as it has done upon her Narcissus, the bridegroom.
Anna Wenbourne St. Ives to Louisa Clifton Chateau de Villebrun I know not, Louisa, how to begin! I have an accident to relate which has alarmed me so much that I am half afraid it should equally alarm my friend. Yet the danger is over, and her sensations cannot equal ours. She can but imagine what they were. But it is so incredible, so mad, so dreadful! Clifton is strangely rash!
What pleasure have we taken in planting and pulling up, digging and scattering, watering and draining, turfing and gravelling! Talking of water, Aby, I cannot forbear mentioning a most delightfully romantic lake, which I have met with in the park of the Marquis de Villebrun. It is the only thing, in the laying out of grounds, that I have seen to please me in all France.
He saw, for I wished him to see, that he had acted exactly as I could have desired. He appears indeed to be a favourite with servants, which certainly is no bad omen. He is Laura's delight. She quite overflows in his praise. In a few days we are to go to the country seat of the Marquis of Villebrun, where we intend to stay about a fortnight.
In compliance with the very warm entreaties of our kind French friends, we have been hurried away from the metropolis sooner than was intended. We are at present in the country, at the Chateau de Villebrun; where, if we are not merry, it is not for the want of laughing. Our feet and our tongues are never still.
They continued their airing in the park of Villebrun, and turned round to a kind of haha, which was both deep and wide, and about half full of water, by the side of which they saw a party of ladies standing, and me among the rest. Frank was with us.
If the experiments made upon my mind can be of any use to thine, my letters will then answer the best of the purposes for which they are written. Coke Clifton to Guy Fairfax Chateau de Villebrun Your last, Fairfax, pleased me. You say truly, and I like your remark, 'Such fellows ought not to claim a moment's attention from me.
But I have left orders for all letters to be sent after me; so that your heroic epistles will come safe and soon to hand. Which is all at this present writing from your very humble servant to command, Anna Wenbourne St. Ives to Louisa Clifton Chateau de Villebrun
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