Englishwoman's Love Letters - Page 52/59

I avoid saying what news I trust to-morrow's post-bag may contain for

me. Every wish I send you comes "from the spleen," which means I am very

healthy, and, conditionally, as happy as is good for me. Pray God bless

my dear Share of the world, and make him get well for his own and my

sake! Amen.

This catches the noon post, an event which always shows I am jubilant,

with a lot of the opposite to a "little death" feeling running over my

nerves. I feel the grass growing under me: the reverse of poor Keats'

complaint. Good-by, Beloved, till I find my way into the provender of

to-morrow's post-bag.