bear such a distinguishable badge of honour I endeavour to "Parle Francais autant que je puis". The German though I like it extremely I really can't overtake it make any satisfactory progress. It is so difficult and requires so much time to study & so many little pleasant incidents occur in my short life I try to store them all up in my memory and say to myself Oh how much I should like to tell this to my brother my thoughts somehow or other are daily holding some nonsensicall conversation that I almost feel as if I were already safely transplanted with the Antipodes. Sweet, sweet, are the pleasures of hope and the bright immagining