p.

prepared for every extravagance
in the present a [list] of reforma-
tion, said she should no more
think of a promise [made]
in a heat than if she had said
she would kill one. I do not re-
port the promise only [out] being
sooner - and like the intercourse
of friendship if you choose on
the present footing. At this
view she was satisfied and
I with the condition that you
will never trifle with any
[premise-promise]. But as to doing with
out you, my dear W, myself re
mains as poor Media said,
And when the dreams of ambi
tion of a moral or mental na-
ture are dissolved before form-
ing present connections - these may
be tempered to the shadows
which pass over a ruin when
the owners stands alone and
says he is still rich tho the