Present, Dear Madam, my love and duty to my father, my sincerest Compliments to your Brothers, and believe me ever
Most affectionately and entirely yours,
E. Gibbon, Junior.
28.
To his Father.
Lausanne, September the 10th, 1763.
Dear Sir,
This morning I received your letter, and according to your desire prepared myself immediately to answer it.
I hardly thought it possible, any letter of yours could have given me so much uneasiness. I am very sensible how many obligations I have to you, and that in this affair you continue to act with your usual goodness to me. If there is any fault it is partly my own and partly that of unhappy circumstances. My expences have been too great for our fortune. I was afraid of it at the time; and tho' I cannot yet see that relative to my situation of travelling and being at Paris I have launched into any extravagancy, the consequences are equally disagreable. But what is past cannot be recalled. With regard, Dear Sir, to the proposal mentioned in your letter; if your own ease or happiness had depended upon it, I should not have hesitated an instant, but as the advantages resulting from it relate only to me you will give me leave to canvass it freely.