Mrs. Rivers pressed me extremely to pass a month with her: my heart yielded too easily to her request; but I had courage to resist my own wishes, as well as her solicitations; and shall set out in three days for Berkshire: I have, however, promised to go with them to-morrow, on a party to Richmond, which Mr. Temple was so obliging as to propose on my account.
Late as the season is, there is one more ship going to Quebec, which sails to-morrow.
You shall hear from me again in a few days by the packet.
Adieu! my dearest friend!
Your faithful
Emily Montague.
Surely it will not be long before Rivers arrives; you, my dear Bell, will judge what must be my anxiety till that moment.
LETTER CLIX.163.
To Captain Fermor, at Silleri.
Dover, July 24, eleven o’clock.
I am arrived, my dear friend, after a passage agreable in itself; but which my fears for Emily made infinitely anxious and painful: every wind that blew, I trembled for her; I formed to myself ideal dangers on her account, which reason had not power to dissipate.
We had a very tumultuous head-sea a great part of the voyage, though the wind was fair; a certain sign there had been stormy weather, with a contrary wind. I fancied my Emily exposed to those storms; there is no expressing what I suffered from this circumstance.