So, no more nonsense.
Honoria and Marjorie (Mrs. Carmichael), and all the rest of
Bridesdale, send kind love and say "come back soon."
Yours affectionately,
JOHN CARRUTHERS.
Mrs. Carruthers also wrote a note that will explain itself:--
_Dear Mr. Coristine_,--Please to overlook my long delay in replying
to your kind letter and in thanking you for your goodness to the
children, who miss you very much, I intended to get Marjorie or
her mother to write for me, but in the bustle of housework,
preserving, and so on, forgot, which was not kind of me. Father
desires me to remember him to you, and says he longs for another
smoke and talk. The others have a delicacy in writing, so I am
compelled to do it myself, though a very poor correspondent. John
has told me about Mr. Douglas coming out to see about Marjorie's
fortune. As I suppose he will want to see her and her mother, will
you please bring him up yourself, and arrange to give us a long
visit.
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