So far I have decided. After that
my future home must, sir, depend on the resolution and
determination, or perhaps on the vagaries and caprices, of
him who is to be my future master. Joking apart, I must
know to what I am to look forward before I can make up my
mind whether I will or will not go back to Italy towards
the end of the summer. If I do, I fear I must do so just
in the hottest time of the year; but I shall not like
to come down here again after leaving London,--unless
something by that time has been settled.
I shall send this to your club, and I hope that it will
reach you. I suppose that you are in London.
Good-bye, dearest Gerard.
Yours most affectionately,
ADELAIDE.
If there is anything that troubles you, pray tell me. I
ask you because I think it would be better for you that I
should know. I sometimes think that you would have written
if there had not been some misfortune. God bless you.
Gerard was in London, and sent the following note by return of
post:--
---- Club, Tuesday.
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