Chapter 19 FROM GENERAL CONYERS TO HIS SON

Beddwys, N. Wales.

My dear Fred,-How happy I am that you are enjoying yourself; short of being with you, nothing could have given me greater pleasure than your letter. I like your portrait of the old lady, whose eccentricities are never inconsistent with some charming traits of disposition, and a nature eminently high-minded and honorable; but w