![]() ![]() It is impossible to squeeze a moral out of your production. You are very different from me in having no doctrine to preach. ![]() No sign of this weariness is in your book-you must have had abundance, having kept it all to yourself! If I were to do so I should get tired & weary every one else in about two pages. I expected something more changeable & unfinished. Your novel surprised me by being so perfect as a work of art. The Harlequin has just come from Otago & is to sail for Singapore when the wind changes & by that road route (which I hope to take myself sometime) I send you this. If a cattle vessel came from Sydney she would probably return in a few days & would take a mail, but we have had east wind for a month & nothing can come in.-July 1. There was a little thing with one mast, & also H.M.S. Victoria & looked for a ship to carry a letter to you. After I had read it I went on to the top of Mt. In a believing mood I don’t doubt either of them. I begin to believe in your existence much as I do in Mr Rochester’s. Such events did not happen while I was in England. It seemed to me incredible that you had actually written a book. About a month since I received & read Jane Eyre. ![]()
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