I will write to you again the moment I have seen her.
The invitation Mr. and Mrs. Temple have been so obliging as to give us, is too pleasing to ourselves not to be accepted; we also expect with impatience the time of visiting you at your farm.
Adieu!
Your affectionate
J. Fitzgerald.
LETTER CLXXV.179.
To Captain Fitzgerald.
Stamford, Sept. 16, Evening.
Being here on some business, my dear friend, I receive your letter in time to answer it to-night.
We hope to be in town this day seven-night; and I flatter myself, my dearest Emily will not delay my happiness many days longer: I grudge you the pleasure of seeing her on Friday.
I triumph greatly in your having been seduced into matrimony, because I never knew a man more of a turn to make an agreable husband; it was the idea that occurred to me the first moment I saw you.
Do you know, my dear Fitzgerald, that, if your little syren had not anticipated my purpose, I had designs upon you for my sister?