She is worn to the bone, as pale as death and her eyes starting out of
her head. She seems indeed in a sad way, alternately in tearing
spirits and in tears. I hate her character, her feelings, and herself
when I am away from her, but she interests me when I am with her, and
to see her poor careworn face is dismal, in spite of reason and
speculation upon her extraordinary conduct. She appears to me in a
state very (little) short of insanity, and my aunt describes it as at
times having been decidedly so."]
[Footnote 3: The context and allusion seem to require another word than
"_brief_;" but the sentence is written as printed. In Fielding's 'Life
of Mr. Jonathan Wild' (Bk. III. chap. viii.) and in
"a dialogue matrimonial, which passed between Jonathan Wild, Esquire,
and Laetitia his wife" ('nee' Laetitia Snap), "Laetitia asks, 'But
pray, Mr. Wild, why b--ch? Why did you suffer such a word to escape
you?'"]
[Footnote 4: The republication of the 'Anthology']
[Footnote 5: Murray's removal from 32, Fleet Street, to 50, Albemaile
Street.]
[Footnote 6: With Lady Caroline Lamb.]
[Footnote 7: Near Lower Moor, the residence of Hodgson's relatives, the
Cokes.]
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276.--To John Hanson.
3d Feb'y, 1813.
Dear Sir,--Will you forward the inclosed immediately to Corbet, whose
address I do not exactly remember? It is of consequence, relative to a
foolish woman [1] I never saw, who fancies I want to marry her.
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