Hester Lucy Stanhope.
The same to the same.
Djoun, August 14, 1836.
Monsieur,
I have succeeded, at last, in finding out the extent of the intrigues against me. The intriguers thought to do me a great deal of harm, but, thank God! they have done me a great deal of good, as you will see hereafter. When the hot days are over, you must pay me another visit, in order for me to make you perfectly acquainted with everything, and also to settle our accounts. Be not uneasy if you do not receive any letters from your correspondent by the packet-boat. At this season, all the great folks in England are dispersed at their country-houses, and your friend, perhaps, will defer writing to you until he gets your last letters.
I have as yet no answer from the doctor since I last wrote to him, but I understand his circumstances are not very flourishing. Poor man, let him take courage: he shall be better, ay, shall be well off, when I have put down those ——.
In eight days, with your leave, I will send you the bill of exchange for the £100, and you can send me the 200 gazi.[75] I sha’n’t torment you any more afterwards, until I make you my principal banker and attorney, to liquidate my debts, &c.
Accept, &c.
Hester Lucy Stanhope.
PS. The negro affair has not annoyed me much, but the infamous conduct of those two maids torments me daily. One of them has driven her father-in-law from his home, and the other has been turned out of doors by the man’s wife where she lived. I have always found that giving too much education was only painting a character over, and that, needs must, whatever is born in man will, sooner or later, show itself. Too much education is what has spoiled France, and has made the French monkey-philosophers, and the English wicked brutes (qui a rendu les François des singes philosophes et les Anglois des méchantes bêtes).