Elizabeth’s Anxious Letter to Victor

“I have written myself into good spirits, dear cousin; yet I cannot conclude

without again anxiously inquiring concerning your health. Dear Victor, if you are not very

ill, write yourself, and make your father and all of us happy; or——I cannot bear

to think of the other side of the question; my tears already flow. Adieu,

my dearest cousin.” “Elizabeth Lavenza. “Geneva, March 18th, 17—.”

“Dear, dear Elizabeth!” I exclaimed when I had read her letter, “I will write instantly,

and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel.” I wrote, and this exertion

greatly fatigued me; but my convalescence had commenced, and proceeded regularly. In another fortnight