...any thing you do, let it be ever fo odd and unexpected, to the tendereft of hufbands. RICH. STEELE. We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat, in the houfe ; but we do not want now. LETTER CCXX. To Lady STEELE. DEAR PRLTE, Nov. 20, 1716. I AM...

...with tho la ft paragraph of Leiter CCXIX, written to Lady Steele while fee was on a vide in Wales : " We had not, when " you left us, an inch of candle, a pound " of coal, or a bit of meat, in thehoufe; " but we do not want now.1' Such was oucc the fuuation of Sir Richird Steele— a writer...

...thing you do, let it be ever so odd and unexpected, to the tenderest of huspa.ncfs, R-ICH- STEELE. We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle, ,a pound of eoal, or -a bit; of meat, in the house ; -•but- we do riot want now. • .•••••> --". RS...

...frequent signature of Sir Richard) tells his parsimonious dame, ' we had not when you left M», au inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house.' In letter 315 we have the following arch allusion to die mercantile severity with which...

...be angry at anything you do, let it be ever so odd and unexpected, to the tenderest of husbands. ' ' We had not when you left us an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house, but we do not want BOw." " January 1. " DEAR, DEAR PRUE, — I wish you from my soul...

...but of the man. What a domestic interior is sketched in these few lines to his wife in Wales : — " We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house." This was written in the November of 1716. Again, what a glimpse of himself we catch...

...There seems to have been no quarrel, but Steele seems to have been most beggarly poor for some reason : he writes, " We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle or a pound of coal in the house, but we do not want now." Steele's letters to his wife thus far axe...

...anything you do, let it be ever so odd and unexpected, to the tenderest of husbands, RICH. STEELE. We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house ; but we do not want now. * Steelc's " amanuensis." t Alexander Scurlock, son of a brother...

...anything you do, let it be ever so odd and unexpected, to the tenderest of husbands, RICH. STEELE. We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house ; but we do not want now. * Steele's " amanuensis." t Alexander Scurlock, son of a brother...

...be angry at anything you do, let it be ever so odd and unexpected, to the tenderest of husbands. " We had not when you left us an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house,but we do not want now." " January 1. " DEAR, DEAR PRCE, — I wish you from my soul a...