that
I know you will excuse. Adieu. Remember me to Lord Carlisle.
[17 — To the Hon. Augusta Byron]
[Castle Howard, Malton, Yorkshire.]
Harrow-on-the-Hill, Novr. 21st, 1804.
My Dearest Augusta
, — This morning I received your by no means unwelcome epistle, and thinking it demands an immediate answer, once more take up my pen to employ it in your service. There is no necessity for my mother to know anything of my intentions, till the time approaches; and when it does come, Mr. H. has only to write her a note saying, that, as I could not accept the invitation he gave me last holidays, he imagined I might do it now; to this she surely can make no objections; but, if she entertained the slightest idea of my making any complaint of her very
lenient