My difficulties about removing from home arise from the consciousness of my own weakness.  I make it a rule, as much as I can, to conform wherever I go.  Though I am threescore to-day, I should not think that an age for giving every thing up; but it is, for whatever one has not strength to perform.  You, though not a vast deal younger, are as healthy and strong, thank God! as ever you was:  and you cannot have ideas of the mortification of being stared at by strangers and servants, when one hobbles, or cannot do as others do.  I delight in being with you, and the Richmonds, and those I love and know; but the crowds of young people, and Chichester folks, and officers, and strange servants, make me afraid of Goodwood, I own My spirits are never low; but they seldom will last out the whole day; and though I dare to say I appear to many capricious, and different from the rest of the world, there is more reason in my behaviour than there seems.  You know in London I seldom stir out in a morning, and always late; it is because I want a great deal of rest.  Exercise never did agree with me:  and it is hard if I do not know myself by this time; and what has done so well for me will probably suit me best for the rest of my life.  It would be ridiculous to talk so much of myself, and to enter into such trifling details, but you are the person in the world that I wish to convince that I do not act merely from humour or ill-humour; though I confess at the same time that I want your bonhommie, and have a disposition not to care at all for people that I do not absolutely like.  I could say a great deal more on this head, but it is not proper; though, when one has pretty much done with the world, I think with Lady Blandford, that One may indulge one’s self in one’s own whims and partialities in one’s own house.  I do not mean, still less to profess, retirement, because it is less ridiculous to go on with the world to the last, than to return to it; but in a quiet way it has long been my purpose to drop a great deal of it.  Of all things I am farthest from not intending to come often to Park-place, whenever you have little company; and I had rather be with you, in November than July, because I am so totally unable to walk farther than a snail.  I will never say any more on these subjects, because there may be as much affectation in being over old, as folly in being over young.  My idea of age is, that one has nothing really to do but what one ought, and what is reasonable.  All affectations are pretensions; and pretending to be any thing one is not, cannot deceive when one is known, as every body must be That has lived long.  I do not mean that old folks may not have pleasures if they can; but then I think those pleasures are confined to being comfortable, and to enjoying the few friends one has not outlived.  I am so fair as to own, that one’s duties are not pleasures.  I have given up a great deal of my time to nephews and nieces, even to some I can have little affection