will remember it as well as I do, for he thought it very unnecessary to send me away, and said—but pray go on with the letter."
As Mrs. Gooch's recollections heightened her colour, Mrs. Palmer took her advice.
"'We are now at the Isle of Wight, and both under medical help, but, as we get better every day, I purpose proceeding to London on the 17th instant, and shall do ourselves the pleasure of seeing you the following morning, as we have the satisfaction of learning, from a friend of yours, (Mr. Mansel, visiting Ryde) that you and Mr. Palmer are well, and his fair daughters all married most happily.
"'Till then, my dear madam, accept the warm esteem of two young men who will ever hold themselves sincerely obliged to you for your long-continued kindness to their still regretted sister, for we are one in all our feelings. With best regards to Mr. Palmer, believe me, your attached friend and servant,
"'Meersbrook.'"
"The 17th instant! where can the letter have been laid? it is put in at Portsmouth ten days after its date; to-day is the 17th; they will be here to-morrow. How glad I shall be to see them! though they will be grown quite out of knowledge, and covered with whiskers like other young men, I dare say. No matter; their hearts are in the right place, whatever they look like. They used to be remarkably like each other in person, and there is scarcely a year between
