Volume 1, Letter 19: To Eloisa

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌​‌⁠I am now detained here only by your order. Those five days have been more than sufficient to finish my own concerns, if things may be so called in which the heart has no interest: so that now you have no pretence to prolong my exile, unless with design to torment me.

I begin to be very uneasy about the fate of my first letter. It was written and sent by the post immediately upon my arrival, and the