The Works of Laurence Sterne (Volume 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1808 Excerpt: ... The fooner you fend me the gold fnuff-box, the better--'tis a prefent from my beft friend. LETTER CIII. TO MR. AND MRS. J. Cox-.vould, Augufl a, 1767. My dear friends Mr. and Mrs. J.--are infinitely kind to me, in fending now and then a letter to inquire after me--and to acquaint me how they are.--You cannot conceive, my dear lady, how truly I bear a part in your illnefs.--I wifh Mr. J--would carry you to the South of France in purfuit of health--but why need I wifh it, when I know his affe&ion will make him do that and ten times as much to prevent a return of thofe fymptoms which alarmed him fo much in the fpring--your politenefs and humanity are always contriving to treat me agreeably, and what you promife next winter will be perfectly fo--but you muft get well--and your little dear girl muft be of the party, with her parents and friends, to give it a relifh--I am fure you fhew no partiality but what is natural and praife-worthy, in behalf of your daughter, but I wonder my friends will not find her a play-fellow; and I both hope and advife them not to venture along through this warfare of life without two firings at leaft A A 4 to to their bow.--I had letters from France by laft night's poft, by which (by fome fatality) I find not one of my letters has reached Mrs. Sterne. This gives me concern, as it wears the afpect of unkindnefs, which me by no means merits from me.--My wife and dear girl are coming to pay me a vifit for a few months;--I wifh I may prevail with them to tarry' longer.--You muft permit me, dear Mrs. J. to make my Lydia known to you, if I can prevail with my wife to come and fpend a little time in London, as Ihe returns to France. I expect a fmall parcel--may I trouble you, before you write next, to fend to my lodgings to afk if there is ...