Uncle Henry writes very superior
sermons. You and I must try to get hold of one or two, and put them
into our novels: it would be a fine help to a volume; and we could
make our heroine read it aloud on a Sunday evening, just as well as
Isabella Wardour, in the "Antiquary," is made to read the "History of
the Hartz Demon" in the ruins of St. Ruth, though I believe, on
recollection, Lovell is the reader. By the bye, my dear E., I am
quite concerned for the loss your mother mentions in her letter. Two
chapters and a half to be missing is monstrous! It is well that _I_
have not been at Steventon lately, and therefore cannot be suspected
of purloining them: two strong twigs and a half towards a nest of my
own would have been something. I do not think, however, that any
theft of that sort would be really very useful to me. What should I
do with your strong, manly, vigorous sketches, full of variety and
glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches
wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces
little effect after much labour?
'You will hear from uncle Henry how well Anna is.
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