 that in the separation of two persons, who love each other, the one who is left, is by far the greatest sufferer. The mind, in spite of us, must necessarily, in some degree, accompany, or rather attend upon, the body; and while that is in motion, it feels a kind of rotation also—
" Beaux, banish beaux; and coaches, coaches drive."
And now I talk of coaches, I have never

set my foot in ours, since you left London: I begin to think that this is carrying the idea of locality too far, and will therefore order it to set me down at the play-house, this evening.

Your description of South-Britain has encreased my curiosity, but not my desire of travelling through it—for what can augment my wishes to see you! Your first letter affected me, extremely—Oh! beware of a propensity to unhappiness, my much loved sister! Sir William has a roughness in his manner, which I really believe to be more owing to an illiberal education than a coarse mind—I say illiberal, tho' I know he was bred at a college—learning and science may be there acquired, but alas! I fear the professors of universities do not attend

much to les petites morales—There are many men weak enough to imagine that an affectation of contempt for the understandings of women, is proof sufficient of the superiority of their own—but these persons ought never to marry; for we can neither love those we despise, nor those who seem to despise us—But I am far from imagining this to be Sir William's case; I know he both loves and esteems my Louisa, though he be deficient in that sort of galant address, which might better inable him to shew his sentiments—But how few husbands are there, after all, even in what is stiled polite life, who seem to think such an attention necessary? I affirm it to be absolutely so—for they must be sad philosophers, indeed, who mistake the possession of a treasure for the enjoyment of it: but I will not

forgive your trifling with your own happiness, by seeming to doubt a fact, on which alone it can be founded.
I am glad you have happened to meet with the gentlemen you mention—Agreeable society is always pleasing to a rational mind, but more particularly so when there is any little difficulty, danger or fatigue, to encounter; and notwithing your flourishing description of Wales, I cannot help thinking that a journey thro' it must be attended, in some degree, with those slight evils I have mentioned.—
My brother has been remarkably grave, ever
