Now I do wish we had known her history at large. Dr. Bartlett shall tell
it us. Unwelcome as she is to my brother, I long to see her. I hope I
shall not hear something in her story, that will make me pity her.
Will you come?
I wonder whether she speaks English, or not. I don't think I can
converse in Italian.
I won't forgive you, if you refuse to come.
Lady L---- and her good man will be here. We shall therefore, if you
come, be our whole family together.
My brother has presented this house to me, till his return. He calls
himself Lord G----'s guest and mine: so you can have no punctilio about
it. Besides, Lord W---- will set out to-morrow morning for Windsor. He
dotes upon you: and perhaps it is in your power to make a new-married man
penitent and polite.
So you must come.
Hang me, if I sign by any other name, while this man is in fits, than
that of
CHARLOTTE GRANDISON.
LETTER XXIV
MISS BYRON, TO MISS SELBY
THURSDAY, APRIL 13.
I send you enclosed a letter I received this morning from Lady G----. I
will suppose you have read it.
Emily says, that the meeting between Sir Charles and the lady mentioned
in it, was very polite on both sides: but more cold on his than on hers.
She made some difficulty, however, of dining at his house; and her aunt,
Lady Maffei, more. But on Sir Charles's telling them, that he would
bring his elder sister to attend them thither, they complied.
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