Chipping Norton
Oct 22nd /77
My Darling Eugénie,
I received your letter two or three hours ago and for once in the way will write by the evening mail, so I expect you will receive these few lines to-morrow night, somewhat unexpectedly.
I was so sorry to hear you had a head-ache, darling. I should have liked to be near that I might have placed the aching brow next my heart and tried to soothe the pain away, I shall always like my Eugénie to feel that I can help her bear any suffering bodily or mental, you must always come to your Julius in any trouble, great or small, my precious one!
It is a dull wet afternoon and has stopped the outside work at our house, inside they are beginning to get some of the rough work done and will I hope soon make some show for their work, to-day I have been selecting carpets for our room, the best spare room, the passage and ante room, and also the stair carpet, I am very well satisfied with them and especially the stairs carpeting which is very much to my taste, what a lot I shall have to tell you about, darling, when we are together, as the day of meeting draws nearer I seem to get more impatient than ever.
It will be hardly worthwhile my writing again, unless you therefore hear to the contrary, you may conclude that I shall leave here @ 3.15P.M. on Friday take the night mail and arrive as before about 6A.M. on Saturday, I think of going to the Hotel d’Abbe as before, by what time may I present myself, @ 9.30?
I shall be sorry to miss seeing Papa altogether, am glad he is better.
Poor Fanny, I hope she may soon recover her usual health & spirits, I trust you may soon have a better account.
Good-bye, my love, to see your sweet face again, and once more to embrace my own fair Eugénie, is the longing wish of
Your true lover
Julius Sladden
