``Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.`` --from a letter to Cassandra, October 27, 1798 ``You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs.
Hulbert\'s servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not.`` --from a letter to Cassandra, January 8, 1799 ``Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argum. ``Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.`` --from a letter to Cassandra, October 27, 1798 ``You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs