decent
specimen of the dowager's talents for epistles in the
furioso
style. You are now freed from the
shackles
of her correspondence, and when I revisit her, I shall be bored with long stories of your
ingratitude
, etc., etc. She is as I have before declared certainly mad (to say she was in her senses, would be condemning her as a Criminal), her conduct is a
happy
compound of derangement and Folly. I had the other day an epistle from her; not a word was mentioned about you, but I had some of the usual