An ill-natured sprite has been busy
with me, which seems to deny me everything which is so
freely granted to others.
As for you, the world is at your feet. I dread two things
for you,--that you should marry unworthily, and that
you should injure your prospects in public life by an
uncompromising stiffness. On the former subject I can say
nothing to you. As to the latter, let me implore you to
come down here before you decide upon anything. Of course
you can at once accept Mr. Gresham's offer; and that is
what you should do unless the office proposed to you be
unworthy of you. No friend of yours will think that your
old place at the Colonies should be rejected. But if your
mind is still turned towards refusing, ask Mr. Gresham to
give you three or four days for decision, and then come
here. He cannot refuse you,--nor after all that is passed
can you refuse me.
Yours affectionately,
L. K.
When he had read this letter he at once acknowledged to himself
that he could not refuse her request.
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