How delightful it must be to read Dante with a
sympathetic fellow-student, one who has also loved--and RENOUNCED!-
-Yours very sincerely,
DOROTHEA CASAUBON.
P.S.--I do not expect Mr. Casaubon back from Cambridge before
Monday afternoon.
From William Ladislaw, Esq., to the Hon. Secretary of the Literary
and Philosophical Mechanics' Institute, Middlemarch.
My Dear Sir,--I find that I can be in your neighbourhood on
Saturday, and will gladly accept your invitation to lecture at your
Institute on the Immutability of Morals.--Faithfully yours,
W. LADISLAW.
From William Ladislaw, Esq., to Mrs.
Casaubon.
Dear Mrs. Casaubon,--Only a line to say that I am to lecture at the
Mechanics' Institute on Saturday. I can scarcely hope that, as Mr.
Casaubon is away, you will be able to attend my poor performance,
but on Sunday I may have, I hope, the pleasure of waiting on you in
the afternoon?--Very sincerely yours,
W. LADISLAW.
P.S.--I shall bring the 'Vita Nuova'--it is not so difficult as the
'Paradiso'--and I shall be happy to help you with a few of the
earlier sonnets.
From Mrs. Casaubon to Mrs. Forth.
June 5.
Dear Lady,--You will be surprised at receiving a letter from a
stranger! How shall I address you--how shall I say what I ought to
say? Our husbands are not unknown to each other, I may almost call
them friends, but we have met only once.
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