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APPENDIX TO LIFE OF MADAME MO JOIST. 199
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her , when one has been able to judge of tlie vivacity of her intellectof the wealth of her heartof the life which her brilliant
imag , ination east on all her surroundings , , on anything about which she occupied herself ; when one has followed her in her
daily avocations , and seen how many joys and what a sum of happiness she created about her , then words are insufficient ! She
excelled in every relation of life ; one does not know which most to admire ; the wife , the mother , the friend , or the -woman who
thinks , speaks , and acts , who compassionates every misfortune , and numbers the flight of days by benefits bestowed . She recalls that
magnificent line of Scripture , ' We are made in the image of God . ' AH those who have known her intimately , will weep for her till the
day of their death . " Of the correspondence scattered "through , this volume we can only
indicate the value and surpassing interest . It refers to every conceivable subject : politicsliteraturelifereligion . Many of the
letters are addressed to Mademoiselle , , Saint , -Aulaire , a young girl of sixteenfor whom Sismondi entertained a beautiful and paternal
, friendship . Those addressed to Madame Mojon , "Ma bonne amie , " reveal the receiver as much as they reveal the writer .
The two following letters , however , published as they are in the biography of Madame Mojon , have a more special claim for
reproduction here . copy of a iettee from miss edgwoeth to madame _mojoist _,
dated ed & eworth ' stow : n " , Ireland , April 10 th , 1830 . I wish that I could write to you " my dear madamin your own
, , delightful language , which expresses in such a melodious , graceful , and natural mannerall that is grateful and pleasing to the heart
and to the ear . But , alas , ! what your letter made me feel so agreeably , mine can never convey to you ; unless , indeed , you are so kind ( as )
to translate me into Italian as you read . And certainly this would cost you no trouble , as I may judge by what I see of " Early
Lessonss . " Frank appears to me much more agreeable in Italian than in English , and ( if a foreigner may judge ) he speaks that
language with so much purity and facility that I can scarcely help thinking it his native tongue . Even his very name in
Italy—Benedetto—sounds auspicious , more conciliatory and ( pardon a pun ) more blessed than his Engiish appellation .
Accept , dear madam , my most sincere and warm thanks for the service and the kindness you have done me . I hope you are an
graced and author as , by hi and g good h that gratification translation you may from . some Unless seeing time experience what have you been similar have so written fortunate pleasure so ,
you , ( and . that is not probable , ) you cannot from your own feelings judge how It much is deli I htful feel obli to me ged . to think that little EarlLessons will my y
in . future be g read with pleasure by a rising generation of Italian
Appendix To Life Of Madame Mo Joist. 199
APPENDIX TO LIFE OF MADAME MO JOIST . 199
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/55/
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