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News, my dearest Fanny -- news is an article as rare with us as with the morning papers. We see nobody, hear nothing, do nothing, but amuse ourselves as we best can, and that is not adapted to a letter, it would require such endless explanations.
In answer to your first question, Yes; Julius is here, or rather, he is with his mother at the Grange, and very frequently walks over. As to his being my slave, don't think it! He is evidently not indifferent to me, but as evidently not in love. The vainest of our sex (are we so vain? ) in my place could not imagine him in love. I'm rather glad of it, for I certainly _don't_ love _him_, and should be sorry to lose a _friend_.