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 apologies; and so, as all our dinners and parties have met their reward, we shall go on in the same track; and that is the end of the great ball subject.

Friday, Barrackpore. Fanny and I and Dr. Drummond came up here yesterday, as change of air is always the thing after a bilious attack; but she is quite well again.

The weather is very nice now early in the morning, so much so that I got up at half-past six and got into a tonjaun and was carried to the menagerie, which is now quite full, and thence to the garden.

Monday, January 23. We gave a farewell dinner at Barrackpore to old General, who commands that station, and who is going home. We had all the chief military people to meet him.

We heard a great many details of that poor Dr. ’s death. His name must have come often in my letters, as we were more acquainted with him than with most people here. George and he were in constant communication.