they could; the great hall was quite full of people, and yet at one time nearly everybody was dancing.
There is the July overland with your two letters to me. A great deal of public news in the warlike way, and it looks horribly as if our dear Overland were to be interfered with. I think if the Pacha is anything of a gentleman, he will not interfere with our letters; I am sure | you and I never did him any harm, and it is a bore that our personal comfort should be interfered with by that sort of uninteresting war. I don’t care about Egypt, do you? and I always take the Pacha and the Sultan to be the same man, and if they are not, I do not know which belongs to what, and Egypt is altogether sandy, and sphinxy, and tiresome, and if Waghorne is not to be king of it I do not care what happens.
Mrs. brought her boys yesterday to see Freddy. He walked round R just as we should round an elephant. ‘Oh! So
