{110} She looks very well, and her hair is done up
with an elegance to do credit to any education. Her manners are as
unaffected and pleasing as ever. She had heard from her mother to-
day. Mrs. Craven spends another fortnight at Chilton. I saw nobody
but Charlotte, which pleased me best. I was shewn upstairs into a
drawing-room, where she came to me, and the appearance of the room, so
totally unschool-like, amused me very much; it was full of modern
elegancies.
'Yours very affectly.,
'J. A.'
The next letter, written in the following year, contains an account of
another journey to London, with her brother Henry, and reading with him
the manuscript of 'Mansfield Park':--
'Henrietta Street, Wednesday, March 2 (1814).
'MY DEAR CASSANDRA,
'You were wrong in thinking of us at Guildford last night: we were at
Cobham. On reaching G. we found that John and the horses were gone
on. We therefore did no more than we had done at Farnham--sit in the
carriage while fresh horses were put in, and proceeded directly to
Cobham, which we reached by seven, and about eight were sitting down
to a very nice roast fowl, &c.
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