. she is 35 with a flat face and a squeaking voice), of all the makers and unmakers of beds in the household.

My tortoises (all Athenians), my hedgehog, my mastiff and the other live Greek, are all purely. The tortoises lay eggs, and I have hired a hen to hatch them. I am writing notes for

my

quarto (Murray would have it a

quarto

), and Hobhouse is writing text for

his

quarto; if you call on Murray or Cawthorn you will hear news of either. I

[have]

attacked De Pauw