Austen Said:

'Dear Mary, I am just arrived. Bath seems full, and everything as usual. Yours sincerely.' That is the true manly style; that is a complete brother's letter."

'Well, Mary, when do you write to Fanny? Is not it time for you to write to Fanny?'

Henry has been down to Portsmouth to see you;

he had a delightful walk with you to the dockyard last Saturday, and one still more to be dwelt on the next day, on the ramparts; when the balmy air, the sparkling sea, and your sweet looks and conversation were altogether in the most delicious harmony, and afforded sensations which are to raise ecstasy even in retrospect.

his introduction to your family, especially to a fair sister of yours, a fine girl of fifteen, who was of the party on the ramparts,

going into Norfolk again upon some business that you approve;

about our conveying you home,