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Hoping soon to hear from you, I remain, my dear Malcolm, yours faithfully, John Irving

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John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Nov 14

It is tantalising to think that you are just on the other side of these blue hills, but I can’t get at you.

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John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 26

We shall not have the same ties of situation nor the same feelings of relation to each other as we then had.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 25

Not that I am weak enough to believe that when you and I meet again we shall suit each other as well as when we were in the Belvidera.”

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 25

I should be unjust to you if I did not tell you so, that it is the greatest comfort to me to think that, as long as we live, I have such a friend as you have been to me ever since I first knew you, and when we first called each other friends.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 24

No, quite the contrary;

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 24

-than that I have the least expectation of such an event, or that you have ever given me the slightest cause to think it at all probable.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 23

It is more owing to the morbid sensibility of my own mind, combined with the long habit of deep interest about you, that makes me feel so acutely the bare possibility of your growing cold and indifferent about me,-

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 23

Do not let this remark offend you.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 22

and it does seem natural, that you, surrounded by so many new and agreeable friends and acquaintances, and cut off from all associations with your former life, should gradually slacken your interest in, and cast off your affections for your old friends.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 22

Your feeling vexed at not hearing from me convinces me, more than a dozen letters could, that your interest in my welfare is still the same, and nothing could tend more to remove a horrid feeling of jealousy which sometimes crosses my mind, when I think it possible;

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 21

It shows far more than any assertions could that you are really concerned about me; and I am sure that I never read anything of yours with such heartfelt pleasure as I did these warm remonstrances on my silence and apparent neglect of your letters.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 19

But, my dear Malcolm, do not think for a moment that I am at all displeased at your scolding me; far from it. Nothing could have pleased me more.

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John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 19

I must finish my letter in a hurry. Good-bye.—I am ever your most affectionate
John Irving.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 18

However, it is a source of great present discomfort and uneasiness to be forced to turn my attention, with an effort, to the consideration of subjects in which I used to take great pleasure some weeks ago.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 18

I do not know whether this may be a physical effect on the mind produced by the constant excitement in which I have lived for the last two months,—in which case, when I get settled, my mind may be restored to its former calm and comfortable state.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 17

and I am quite aware that I do not think nearly so much as I used to do about eternity and the things belonging to it.

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John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 17

From having been so hurried about these last two months, and never having time to read, I regret that I am not nearly in such a peaceful state of mind as I used to be

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John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 16

however, I saw her sisters, and have rather melancholy news to carry out to her husband, our Commander.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 16

I found the poor lady quite insane

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 15

Some of my friends seem quite confident that I shall be promoted in a short time, but if this takes place in eighteen months it will happen sooner than I myself expect.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 15

Believe me ever your affectionate friend,
John Irving

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John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 14

I am afraid you will consider this a terribly egotistical letter, but mine are naturally such to you.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 14

I shall be out at Malta about the end of April, and, I am afraid, shall have some difficulty in joining my ship; but I suppose I must stick to the letter-bag.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 13

I shall also get, and, as you desire, consider as a present from you, the little book called Advice to a Young Christian.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 13

I have procured Newton’s Cardiphonia on your recommendation, but I have not had time to read it yet.

John Irving Bot @johnirvingbot.bsky.social · Jan 12

She is a most pious, amiable lady, and I am sure you will be as much pleased with her as she will be with you.