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that lie was _" resolved to try if God _wotdd work a niiracle in _favor of these carriages" confessing at the same time that he had " small
, hope of their ever becoming * useful , and suspected that the age of miracles was past . " Not so hopelessly did Mr . Edgeworth view the
. matter— " I have always thought , " he writes to Mr . Watt , " that steam would become the universal lordand that we should in time scorn
post horses , an iron railroad would be , a cheaper thing than a railroad on the common construction . " **
The regard , which -was heightened by congeniality of taste , continued undiminished by years . " I am gladmy dear Sir , " says
, Mr . Edgeworth in one of his letters , " that the scheme of an iron tunnel came into my head , since it has been the cause of my
being gratified by your kind attentions ; at the close of a long life it is delightful to find that distance of time and place has not erased
us from the remembrance of those with "whom we were associated in early life . "f Mr . Watt died in 1819 , a fine statue of him by
Chantrey , was placed in Westminster Abbey . Miss Edgeworth ' s society was much sought after in France , where
the brilliancy of her wit , and her gaiete de cceur were universally admired . Her hand was asked by a Swedish savant * of high
character , but she could not think of expatriating herself from her country . " Besides , " she used playfully to assure her father , " you
know that I can never marry—Car ! Je suis femme de la Litterature / "
So agreeable was his Parisian sejoitr , that Mr . Edgeworth had almost decided on remaining in France for two years , and fetching
the rest of his family from Ireland ; circumstances however occurred which obliged him to alter his mind . Although not mixing with
political society , the name of JEdgeivorth was sufficient to awaken suspicionand the misrepresentation that he was brother of the
, amiable Abbe , caused an order to be sent him through the police to leave Paris in four and twenty hours ; by the active exertions of
powerful friends there , however , and of the English Ambassador , Lord Whitworththis very disagreeable business was arranged , its
, disagreeability was more than compensated , by the warm regard and the active kindness it was the means of calling- into play towards
himself and his family . He had been in treaty for a charming residence near the Jardins
de Luxembourg ; but he quickly broke it off , feeling confident , that the _agrtmens of brilliant society , and even the high esteem in which
he and his were held , could never eonrpensate for the anxiety and mistrust , which he must feel under a government where the hateful
\ sy * James Origin P . Muirhead progress , Esq of . the vol mechani . 1 , p . 240 cal . inventions of James Watt , etc .,
con tained In the days these of lett the ers , magnificent of Mr . Edgewor " Britanni th ' s ingenious a Bridge , project " the descri of making ption at instead of bridwill be
perused a cast-iron with tunnel interest across . Vide the ferry Muiiiiead Bangor ' s life , of James Watt a , vol . 2 , , p . 321 ..
20 Maria Edgeworth;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/20/
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