text:  If a scholar or philosopher is sick she sits at his bedside; and in the midst of all the playfulness wildness eccentricity (and perhaps affectation ) we meet with in the letters we see enough of right spirit and good heart to counterbalance them all; and such a malicious little minx! and such a despiser of prudery and contemner of humbug in all its branches! It is delightful to reflect on the torment she must have been to all the silly stiff-backed old maids within reach of tongue and eye