When an opportunity offers, I will express my meaning fully.
I went out with neither pleasure nor eagerness. N—— and her children were going to walk, and we enlarged their party.
"Ah! if you knew how I have treated the human race this morning," I said to M—— in answer to a remark I no longer remember.
"Ah! if you knew how little it cares! it is a matter of no importance," replied M——, very wittily.
How dreary it is to have nobody to care for!
My head is heavy and my eyes are closing, yet at the same time I want to write more, the pen glides easily over the paper and, though I might have nothing to say, I go on for the pleasure of filling the white pages and hearing the pleasant scratching of the pen.
"My head is heavy and my eyelids close,
Yet still my gliding pen I will not stay,
Fain would I tell all my heart's joys and woes,