1 My letter was calm and affectionate.
2 Clerval then put the following letter into my hands.
3 I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny.
4 I threw the letter on the table, and covered my face with my hands.
5 No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
6 In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth's letter we returned to Geneva.
7 I instantly wrote to Geneva; nearly two months have elapsed since the departure of my letter.
8 I motioned him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation.
9 This letter in a degree recalled me to life, and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days.
10 Do not let this letter disturb you; do not answer tomorrow, or the next day, or even until you come, if it will give you pain.
11 After passing some months in London, we received a letter from a person in Scotland who had formerly been our visitor at Geneva.
12 Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my spirits.
13 This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
14 Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
15 It gave me the greatest pleasure to receive a letter from my uncle dated at Paris; you are no longer at a formidable distance, and I may hope to see you in less than a fortnight.
16 You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
17 The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.
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