That is so hateful, that she knows I hate.

“Dejection reigns, I feel, but cannot tell

Why upon me the dire infection fell.

Madmen may say that they alone are sane,

And all beside have a distemper’d brain;

Something like this I feel—and I include 350

Myself among the frantic multitude;

But, come, Matilda writes, although but ill,

And home has health, and that is comfort still.”

George stopt his horse, and with the kindest look