"Ever affectionately yours,
"NORAH.
"P.S.--Mr. George Bartram called on Mrs. Tyrrel to-day. He insisted on
being introduced to the children. When he was gone, Mrs. Tyrrel laughed
in her good-humored way, and said that his anxiety to see the children
looked, to her mind, very much like an anxiety to see _me_. You may
imagine how my spirits are improved when I can occupy my pen in writing
such nonsense as this!"
V.
_From Mrs. Lecount to Mr. de Bleriot, General Agent, London._
"St. Crux, October 23d, 1847.
"DEAR SIR--I have been long in thanking you for the kind letter which
promises me your assistance, in friendly remembrance of the commercial
relations formerly existing between my brother and yourself. The
truth is, I have over-taxed my strength on my recovery from a long and
dangerous illness; and for the last ten days I have been suffering under
a relapse. I am now better again, and able to enter on the business
which you so kindly offer to undertake for me.
"The person whose present place of abode it is of the utmost importance
to me to discover is Mr. Noel Vanstone. I have lived, for many years
past, in this gentleman's service as house-keeper; and not having
received my formal dismissal, I consider myself in his service
still.
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