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I hope to wait on you soon with better news . Heaven bless you , dear madam ! and believe me to be , with the utmost sincerity , Your most obliged , obedient , humble servant , `` ATKINSON . '' Amelia was really pleased with this letter ; and now , it being past four o'clock , she despaired of seeing her husband till the evening . She therefore provided some tarts for her children , and then , eating nothing but a slice of bread and butter herself , she began to prepare for the captain 's supper . There were two things of which her husband was particularly fond , which , though it may bring the simplicity of his taste into great contempt with some of my readers , I will venture to name . These were a fowl and egg sauce and mutton broth ; both which Amelia immediately purchased .