Letters of My Wy Me Author:Mary Wortley Montagu Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: a fort. They laughed very much to fee me afraid to handle a gun. My dear fitter, you will eafily pardon an abrupt eonclufion. I believe, by this time you are rea... more »dy to.think I lhall never conclude at all. $. chapter{Section 4LET. X. TO TH£ LADY R- Vienna, Sept. 20. O. S. 17 n5; AM extremely rejoiced, but not at all furprized, at the long, delightful letter, you have had the goodnefs to fend me. I know that you can think of an abfent friend even in the midft of a court, and you love to oblige, where you can have no view of a return; and I expect from you that you fhould love me, and think of me, when you don't fee me. I have compaflion for the mortifications that you tell me befel our little old friend, and I pity her much more, fmce I know, that they are only owing to the barbarous cu— ftoms of our country. Upon my - word, if (he were here, fhe would have no other fault but that .of. being forhething too young for the fafliion faihion, and fhe has nothing- to do but to tranfplant herfelf hither about feven years hence, to be again a young and blooming beauty. I can affiire you, that wrinkles, or a fmall ftoop in the fhoulders, nay even grey hairs, are no objection to the making new conquefts. I know you cannot eafily figure, to yourfelf, a young fellow of five and twenty, ogling my lady S fF k with paflion, or. preffing to hand the countefs O d from an opera. But fuch are the fights I.fee every day, and I don't perceive any body furprizedl" at them but myfelf. A woman till five and, thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can poflibly make no noife in the world, till about thirty. I don't know what your lady- fhip may think of this matter; but 'tis a con-? fiderable comfort to me, to .know there is upon earth fuch a paradife for old women;, and...« less