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Penelope has brought me my desk to pass away the long day during her absence in London -- whither she has gone up with Mrs. Granton to buy the first instalment of her wedding-clothes. She looked very sorry that I could not accompany her. She is exceedingly kind -- more so than ever in her life before, though I have given her a deal of trouble, and seem to be giving more every day.
I have had "fever-and-agur," as the poor folk hereabouts call it -- caught, probably, in those long walks over the moorlands, which I indulged in after our return from the north -- supposing they would do me good. But the illness has done me more; so it comes to the same thing in the end.