But literary
accomplishments are, you know, foreign to the military profession,
and if the captain has not distinguished himself by cutting up
authors in the reviews, he has acquired an honourable medal, by
overcoming the enemies of the civilised world at Waterloo.
To-night the playhouses open again, and we are going to the
Oratorio, and the captain goes with us, a circumstance which I am
the more pleased at, as we are strangers, and he will tell us the
names of the performers. My father made some scruple of consenting
to be of the party; but when he heard that an Oratorio was a concert
of sacred music, he thought it would be only a sinless deviation if
he did, so he goes likewise. The captain, therefore, takes an early
dinner with us at five o'clock. Alas! to what changes am I doomed,-
-that was the tea hour at the manse of Garnock. Oh, when shall I
revisit the primitive simplicities of my native scenes again! But
neither time nor distance, my dear Bell, can change the affection
with which I subscribe myself, ever affectionately, yours,
RACHEL PRINGLE.
At the conclusion of this letter, the countenance of Mrs.
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