Epistle XVII. To Severian.
by
the Same. [Mr. Henley]
[_]
On his Intermission of Writing.
IS all right, that your Letters have taken so long a Vacation? Or, is something amiss;
or are you too much engag'd; or perhaps you are not so busy: but you have seldom or never an Opportunity of Writing.
Ease me of this
Doubt, which I am not Casuist enough to discharge. Send an Express on purpose for it;
I will bear his travelling Charges, and give him a Reward over and above.
Only let him bring me the News I wish for. I my self am well, if a Man can be well who lives in Suspense and Anxiety,
hourly expecting and fearing, in behalf of his best lov'd Friend, all that can possibly arrive to human Nature.