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MRS. DELANY. 35
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9 There Is Suah. A Cliarm In Truth, And ...
There were a vast many people dined at Wimbledon on Thursday . The Lad Duk y e Frances and Duchess Bulkel of y Grafton left us , Lord yesterday and Liad . liments She y Jersey is a to , most & c when worthy , amiable .
woman Alas ! she . She little desired thoht me how to uncertain give her comp was that day ! you I saw you . It is most charming ug weather , and the moon as bright as possible every last niand
ni In g thinking ht but the we last were . beholding I was true the to same my appointment object at the same ght hour , . That was reflec happy - tion will be a still greater comfort to me as you are removed farther clock off ; till for
we our meet engagement and then sliall she hold will good shine for forth every with full double moon lustre ( at eleven and o' charm ) be heightened , by our beholding it together . Till that time and , arrives that every , we must _,
console ourselves in thinking of each other ' s sincerity , everything will turn out as vre wish it , if it is for the best it should . " ! Let N ~ o doubts no fond divert love for our earth stead exact steps a aside sigh , ;
] _STor let us long to live , nor y dread to die , Heaven is our hope , and Providence our guide . " . .... I must beg you will send me two or three franks to Lady
Mary Mordaunt , for I gave you the whole half-dozen that night , and have yet none The we to had nosegay her the ladyshi is leasure still p my alive s of elf contemp . ! Thoug lating h the the moon light was of not itand brig looking ht last at nig the ht ,
skat leastat p the same time . , y As , we were , to be out the whole day , I rose earlier than usual in order to have a little time for readingas food for the mind is full as necessary as for
the body ; and I was always , delighted with what Dr . Young says in one of his " Night Thoughts . "
" A soul without reflexion , Like a pile without an inhabitant , Soon to ruin falls ! "
It is rather a hardship upon our sex that we have in general our own In education our childhood to seek afte writing r we are dancing grown , and up— music I mean is what as to is mental most qualifi attended cation to ; .
knowled mak and e without us ge speak of being history and , a pedant write that , one correctl , such may a y compare knowled is certainl ge past , y of necessary times grammar with , as and present is also requisite , and such be to a
able to enter into conversation when those subjects are started , is very great agreeable Mrs , . and McCaul I am y convinced ( I was told one by is an never intimate too old friend for of improvement hers ) hardly . knew The the meaning of the word till she was near thirty years oldand that
now all her productions go grammar to the press uncorrected ! , Sunday liment . — me Many so thanks much on for my your sty kind le in letter writing , which , that I were have just I not received convinced . You it comp
proceeds from your partiality to me , I should grow too vain ; and though X must am conscious be I most cannot leasing merit to all me you When say on I th entered at subject into , the yet agreement your praises of *
telling interest ever each as the other improvement of p whatever I mistakes shall . receive we made will , be it greater was chiefl than y from yours self , as "
my I sh mistakes all think , our are b more ain numerous at an end ; . and Therefore if I do not I am find but you hal tell f leased me of at them you , p
" deferring " to acquaint arg me with the one made , in my last letter , and so ends this chapter , — and now to proceed to what is of more consequence . _liim how
I think if you and Mr . visit , it would be right to say to disappointed different reception and mortified from you what were upon had reason coming to to expect London especiall at finding y after so
your circu mstances and estates had you undergone all the examination , Mr . Dewes X > 2
Mrs. Delany. 35
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/35/
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