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MARIA EDGEWORTH. ' 29
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This visit was returned two years afterwards , by Sir Walter , Ms town son and wher daug e he hters saw , and 6 neither Ms son hovels -in-law nor , Mr naked . Lockhart peasantry , at Ed , geworths but snug -
friend cottages , in and the smiling midst faces of her , ' and large where , and he happy could ' hom best e circle judge . ' of The his
house , was each day filled with a succession of pleasant guests ; and this every custom night , of after his supper country , to in gratif the olden y Scott times , who they initiated rose and them forming into *
, themselves into a ring , holding hands all round , all who could join , sang to the air of 6 Scots wha hae _, ' pretty nearly the following
words : — " Lift , lift the flagon high I
Will Drain , drai leave n the it ?— ch fte alice ! fie dry ! ! ye Drink ! and fill again . "
Miss Edgeworth , with one of her sisters , and her brother William , joined Sir Walter ' s party for the rest of their Irish tour . And their
reception was such as to draw from Lockhart ' s pen , an original compliment to the proverbial hospitality of Erin .
the d ' Peri Most li Bonou of and the _' houses their tent ; res seemed the ec y t seemed ive to tails have all but been to have for constructed all room in the , no nei t on g the hbourhood y for princi the ple who lio of n
could anoness be held , worthy to in p spect them , at feeding time . " It was long before Miss Edgeworth could bring herself to use for
the public , that pen which from first to last , had been we may say guided by her « father , partner , critic , friend . ' Urged however had alreadbeen
on all sidesto exert those talents which y productive of so much , good , stimulated perhaps by the conviction , that so that cherished parent would have desired it to beshe made a vigorous
effort at self-command , and in 1825 , she gave , to the world one of her best works , ' Harry and Lucy , concluded ? Here we have all
her former clearness in explaining , her accustomed appositeness in of app character lying , and too her between wonted animation the grave in p describing hilosophic . brother The distinction and his
year little also play appeared ful affectionate , her ' Sequel clever to _FrankJ sister , is which admirabl , like y her done ' Rosamond . In this
w is ith equall happ ier interesting strokes from to parent her pen and . " child Pier . touch Nowhere thoug do h li ght meet and
rap Being id , " says requested one of b her y the reviewer editor s of , " ' went The Christmas to the quick contribution Box . " , an annual she
which came out in the year 1828 , for a literary , wrote for him the nice little tale called c Garry Owen _, or the Snow . Woman whichnotwithstanding her working in it a little upon the '
plan of , her own , 6 Blind Kate , was pronounced in the Nodes Ambrosianae " interesting enough to float a heavy volume . "
In 1829 , another dear member was lost to the domestic circle . Williamthe ineerwho had been so often associated with
his father , in mech young anical eng experiments , . His illness was rapid and its
close unexpectedly sudden . . His brother Francis who was particularly
Maria Edgeworth. ' 29
MARIA EDGEWORTH . _' 29
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/29/
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