I am glad you got safe to town:  and long to hear of Miss Darnford’s arrival, because I know you’ll be out of your bias in your new settlement till then.  She is a fine lady, and writes the most to my taste of any one of her sex that I know, next to you.  I wish she’d be so kind as to correspond with me.  But be sure don’t omit to give me the sequel of her sister’s and Murray’s affair, and what you think will please me in relation to her.-You do well to save yourself the trouble of describing the town and the public places.  We are no strangers to them; and they are too much our table talk, when any country lady has for the first time been carried to town, and returned:  besides, what London affords, is nothing that deserves mention, compared to what we have seen at Paris and at Versailles, and other of the French palaces.  You exactly, therefore, hit our tastes, and answer our expectations, when you give us, in your peculiar manner, sentiments on what we may call the soul of things, and such characters as you draw with a pencil borrowed from the hand of nature, intermingled with those fine lights and shades of reflections and observations, that make your pictures glow, and instruct as well as delight.

There, Pamela, is encouragement for you to proceed in obliging us.  We are all of one mind in this respect; and more than ever, since we have seen your actions so well answered to your writings; and that theory and practice, as to every excellence that can adorn a lady, is the same thing with you.

We are pleased with your lawyers’ characters.  There are life and nature in them; but never avoid giving all that occur to you, for that seems to be one of your talents; and in the ugliest, there will be matter of instruction; especially as you seem naturally to fall upon such as are so general, that no one who converses, but must see in them the picture of one or other he is acquainted with.

By this time, perhaps, Miss Darnford will be with you.—­Our respects to her, if so.—­And you will have been at some of the theatrical entertainments:  so will not want subjects to oblige us.—­’Twas a good thought of your dear man’s, to carry you to see the several houses, and to make you a judge, by that means, of the disposition and fashion of every thing in them.-Tell him, I love him better and better.  I am proud of my brother, and do nothing but talk of what a charming husband he makes.  But then, he gives an example to all who know him, and his uncontrollable temper (which makes against many of us), that it is possible for a good wife to make even a bad man a worthy husband:  and this affords an instruction, which may stand all our sex in good stead.—­But then they must have been cautious first, to choose a man of natural good sense, and good manners, and not a brutal or abandoned debauchee.