Their income will be about five hundred pounds a year: it is not much; yet, with their dispositions, I think it will make them happy.
My brother will write to Mr. Fitzgerald next post: say every thing affectionate for us all to him and Captain Fermor.
Adieu! Yours,
Lucy Temple.
LETTER CLXXIII.177.
To Captain Fitzgerald.
Bellfield, Sept. 13.
I congratulate you, my dear friend, on your safe arrival, and on your marriage.
You have got the start of me in happiness; I love you, however, too sincerely to envy you.
Emily has promised me her hand, as soon as some little family affairs are settled, which I flatter myself will not take above another week.
When she gave me this promise, she begged me to allow her to return to Berkshire till our marriage took place; I felt the propriety of this step, and therefore would not oppose it: she pleaded having some business also to settle with her relation there.