and good-humoured man, but pestilently prolix and paradoxical and
personal
. If he would but talk half, and reduce his visits to an hour, he would add to his popularity. As an author he is very good, and his vanity is
ouverte
, like Erskine's, and yet not offending.
, a very pretty letter from Annabella
, which I answered. What an odd situation and friendship is ours!—without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress—a girl of twenty—a peeress that is to be, in her own right—an only child, and a