It describes a journey from Chawton to London, in her brother's
curricle, and shows how much could be seen and enjoyed in course of a
long summer's day by leisurely travelling amongst scenery which the
traveller in an express train now rushes through in little more than an
hour, but scarcely sees at all:--
'Sloane Street, Thursday, May 20 (1813).
'MY DEAR CASSANDRA,
'Before I say anything else, I claim a paper full of halfpence on the
drawing-room mantel-piece; I put them there myself, and forgot to
bring them with me. I cannot say that I have yet been in any distress
for money, but I chuse to have my due, as well as the Devil. How
lucky we were in our weather yesterday! This wet morning makes one
more sensible of it. We had no rain of any consequence. The head of
the curricle was put half up three or four times, but our share of the
showers was very trifling, though they seemed to be heavy all round
us, when we were on the Hog's-back, and I fancied it might then be
raining so hard at Chawton as to make you feel for us much more than
we deserved.
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