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Page 47
In the mean time, all this week and the next, is replete with projects
to Ischia, Procita, &c. &c. so God only knows when I can worship,
again, my Diana of Ephesus.
Write me word, explicitly, how you are, _what_ you are, and where you
are; and be sure that, wheresoever I am, still I am your's, my dearest
Emma.
VII.
Wednesday.
MY DEAREST EMMA,
The very unexpected intelligence, which Prince Augustus has most
delicately communicated to me, of poor Lord Hervey's _decease_, has
quite _boulevers�e_ my already shattered frame.
I would not allow your friendly mind to learn an event so interesting
to me from any other hand than that of your affectionate and devoted
friend,
BRISTOL.
VIII.
MY EVER DEAREST LADY HAMILTON,
I should certainly have made this Sunday an holy day to me, and have
taken a Sabbath day's journey to Caserta, had not poor Mr. Lovel been
confined to his bed above three days with a fever.
To-day, it is departed; to-morrow, Dr. Nudi has secured us from its
resurrection; and, after to-morrow, I hope, virtue will be its own
reward, and that my friendship for Lovel will be recompensed with the
enjoyment.
This moment I receive your _billet-doux_, and very dulcet it is!
All public and private accounts agree, in the immediate prospect of a
general peace. It will make a delicious foreground in the picture of
the new year; many of which, I wish, from the top, bottom, and centre
of my heart, to the incomparable Emma--_quella senza paragona_!
_Dans ce moment, on m'assure que Mayence est prise. Je ne vous
garantis pas cette maudite nouvelle--mais je me flatte que la paix se
fait_.
IX.
EVER DEAREST EMMA,
I went down to your Opera box two minutes after you left it; and
should have seen you on the morning of your departure--but was
detained in the _arms_ of _Murphy_, as Lady Eden expressed it, and was
too late.
You say nothing of the adorable Queen; I hope, she has not forgot me:
but, as Shakespeare says, "Who doats, must doubt;" and I verily deem
her the very best edition of a woman I ever saw--I mean; of such as
are not in _folio_, and are to be _had_ in _sheets_.
I will come on Friday or Saturday; but our British colony are so
numerous, that my duties obstruct my pleasures.
Ever, and invariably, dearest, dear Emma, most affectionately, your
B.
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