Hungars
My dear Ann
Agnes has just come to ask for my commands to you. Now had I the supreme vanity to suppose they cou’d have any weight with your Ladyship, I shou’d command you to visit poor deserted Hungars. We fully expected you on Thursday and Friday. I hope your vanity will be quiet when you hear that we were anxious for your arrival. Aunt says “Betsy, I’ll lay five pounds that Ann won’t come to see me ere her uncle returns.” I say, “Then she’ll be mean as we are particularly lonesome at present.” Juliet has gone on a wild goose chase to Hog Island with E. Snead and a pack of run-mad girls. They made an appointment some time since to visit that delightful seat of the Loves & Graces.
I am commission’d by friend Thorowgood to make an apology to you for his not having call’d on you to present his respects with the poor unfortunate watch. He has the extreme good manners to attribute the omission to me. He had the watch repair’d but the chrystale was loosely put in and, opening the case, it