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32 MRS. DELANT.
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9 There Is Suah. A Cliarm In Truth, And ...
Countess Cowper to the same young girl are also given . This lady was a Granviile by birthand was also godmother to Mary Dewes ;
, she must have been a sprightly woman , not unlike " Lady Gr . " in Sir Charles Grandison . She was warmly attached to her godchild ,
and writes loving , dashing epistles , more like those of one playfellow to another than of elder to younger . Mary Dewes is indeed
the heroine of the first thick volume , and the occasion of most of the wise and witty things that were said . Her Aunt writes to her ,
in 1762 that " our Governor " ( Lord Halifax ) is leaving Ireland , and that , the young ladies , Ms daughters , mourn , " for they are so
not very considering young as to what think a a loss round of time of hurry it is ing to devote pleasures all their is happ hours iness to ;
amusements . . . I don't mean any reflection on the Lady M—' s , for their station here has required them to lead the life they
have civilit done and , good and they humour have ; acquitted but I only themselves condemn the with choice a great of spending deal of
y every dear day child in a public because place you , thoug have h I earl don y 't had fear great this disposition advantages in you and ,
the my good seed , that has been sown will spring up , and you will reap and without the advantage it the mind of it ; _toill reading be dissi and pated thinking and * requires always leisure trifling , .
, . . . . Our business in this "world , my dear , is preparing _^ for another ; and in order to make that exchange a happy one , we
The must and rules blind act up are us to , p and lain the a and name habit easy we of , if have doing indolence taken our duty upon or luxury regularl us , do of y not Christianity is _interfere the best .
toming guard against ourselves the to evils that and regularity temptations , we that shall beset find us , no and manner by accus of - " difficulty , but rather be uneasy at any omission I
think able novel your of jud the gment day ) . very I was right so much of 'Lad pleased y Julia for with _J think & e the . it ( a beg fashion _innings the
of itthat the conclusion quite provoked me , I spoils whole , . You are raised to the highest admiration of the hero of the piece , who is made worthy and amiable , and from then the ends rash Ms and life
good like sad catastrop a charact Lovelace ers he , . ! and How Every not differentl one suffering moral y has to and _' _lbe Mr calamit drawn . Richardson y they don endure e by are his
the not means so much of as making hinted them at by noble the author examples of of Lad Christianit y J . Mandeville y , which . ' " is
In another lettershe tells her niece of a wedding , at which the Dean of Down gave away , the bride , Miss Chapone ; and how in the of
morning gold butt he ons presented and a verse the of bridegroom poetry , which , Dr . Sandford might _Tbe with worse a , pair from a
stately old Dean of one hundred years ago . " Then Both 'Tis an useful emblem together of like marriage , both to mine use , of les for two s a ever l I make remain ; one ,
A polished may , yours a precious , , and permanent , chain !"
32 Mrs. Delant.
32 MRS . _DELANT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/32/
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