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When Lydia went away she promised to write very often and very

minutely to her mother and Kitty; but her letters were always

long expected, and always very short. Those to her mother

contained little else than that they were just returned from the

library, where such and such officers had attended them, and

where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite

wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would

have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a

violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going to

the camp; and from her correspondence with her sister there was

still less to be learnt, for her letters to Kitty, though rather

longer, were much too full of lines under the words to be made

public.