The Journal to Stella eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 853 pages of information about The Journal to Stella.

The Journal to Stella eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 853 pages of information about The Journal to Stella.
Your Provost[14] is a coxcomb.  Stella is a good girl for not being angry when I tell her of spelling; I see none wrong in this.  God Almighty be praised that your disorder lessens; it increases my hopes mightily that they will go off.  And have you been plagued with the fear of the plague? never mind those reports; I have heard them five hundred times.  Replevi?  Replevin, simpleton, ’tis Dingley I mean; but it is a hard word, and so I’ll excuse it.  I stated Dingley’s accounts in my last.  I forgot Catherine’s sevenpenny dinner.  I hope it was the beef-steaks; I’ll call and eat them in spring; but Goody Stoyte must give me coffee, or green tea, for I drink no bohea.  Well, ay, the pamphlet; but there are some additions to the fourth edition; the fifth edition was of four thousand, in a smaller print, sold for sixpence.  Yes, I had the twenty-pound bill from Parvisol:  and what then?  Pray now eat the Laracor apples; I beg you not to keep them, but tell me what they are.  You have had Tooke’s bill in my last.  And so there now, your whole letter is answered.  I tell you what I do; I lay your letter before me, and take it in order, and answer what is necessary; and so and so.  Well, when I expected we were all undone, I designed to retire for six months, and then steal over to Laracor; and I had in my mouth a thousand times two lines of Shakespeare, where Cardinal Wolsey says,

     “A weak old man, battered with storms of state,
      Is come to lay his weary bones among you."[15]

I beg your pardon; I have cheated you all this margin, I did not perceive it; and I went on wider and wider like Stella; awkward sluts; she writes so so, there:[16] that’s as like as two eggs a penny.—­“A weak old man,” now I am saying it, and shall till to-morrow.—­The Duke of Marlborough says there is nothing he now desires so much as to contrive some way how to soften Dr. Swift.  He is mistaken; for those things that have been hardest against him were not written by me.  Mr. Secretary told me this from a friend of the Duke’s; and I’m sure now he is down, I shall not trample on him; although I love him not, I dislike his being out.—­Bernage was to see me this morning, and gave some very indifferent excuses for not calling here so long.  I care not twopence.  Prince Eugene did not dine with the Duke of Marlborough on Sunday, but was last night at Lady Betty Germaine’s assemblee, and a vast number of ladies to see him.  Mr. Lewis and I dined with a private friend.  I was this morning to see the Duke of Ormond, who appointed me to meet him at the Cockpit at one, but never came.  I sat too some time with the Duchess.  We don’t like things very well yet.  I am come home early, and going to be busy.  I’ll go write.

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