I have crept in favour with myself, I must maintain it;"
but I never "mistook my person,"
though I think others have.
—— called to-day in great despair about his mistress, who has taken a freak of ——. He began a letter to her, but was obliged to stop short—I finished it for him, and he copied and sent it. If
he
holds out, and keeps to my instructions of affected indifference, she will lower her colours. If she don't, he will, at least, get rid of her, and she don't seem much worth keeping. But the poor lad is in love—if that is the case, she will win. When they once discover their power,
finita è la musica
.