, or sensible, or good-tempered? either
would
do—I scratch out the
will
. I don't ask as to her beauty—that I see; but my circumstances are mending, and were not my other prospects blackening, I would take a wife, and that should be the woman, had I a chance. I do not yet know her much, but better than I did.
I want to get away, but find difficulty in compassing a passage in a ship of war.
had better let me go; if I cannot, patriotism is the word—"nay, an they'll mouth, I'll rant as well as they."
Now, what are you doing?—writing, we all hope, for our own sakes. Remember you must edit my posthumous works, with a Life of the Author, for which I will send you Confessions, dated "Lazaretto," Smyrna, Malta, or Palermo—one can die any where.