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Beddoes is much better, but my father does not think his health safe. I am very well, but shamefully idle: indeed, I have done nothing but hear; and if I had had a dozen pair extraordinary of ears, and as many heads, I do not think I could have heard or held all that was said. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Feb. 1807.

I do not think I had sense enough to take in the relations and proportions of the events. It was like moving a magnifying glass over the parts of a beetle, and not taking in the whole. To MISS MARGARET RUXTON, then residing at HYERES. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 16, 1842. It seems such an immense time since I have heard from you, so now I sit down to earn a letter.

BLACK CASTLE, May 10, 1825. Your list of presentation copies of Harry and Lucy, and your reasons for giving each, diverted me very much. Sophy and Margaret and I laughed over it and agreed that every reason was like Mr. Plunket's speech, "unanswerable." To MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, July 9, 1825. "Fifty-five years!" How much is contained in those words of yours!

Ruxton one day killed an old buck, and left it on the ground, where six small wolves were in attendance. Ten minutes after he left his game, the six wolves came up with him, one of which had his nose and face besmeared with blood, and he seemed to be almost bursting.

Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first. We are a little, but very little afraid of being swallowed up by the French: they have so much to swallow and digest before they come to us! They did come once very near to be sure, but they got nothing by it. To MISS S. RUXTON.

He was charmed with old Dr. Burney, who at eighty-two was the most lively, well-bred, agreeable man in the room. Lord Stanhope begged to be presented to him, and he thought him the most wonderful man he ever met. Tell my aunt Leonora is in the press. To MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept 6, 1805. Thank you, thank you.

The next day, the 9th of September, we returned home, where everything was exactly as we had left it, all serene and happy, five days before only five days, which seemed almost a lifetime, from the dangers and anxiety we had gone through. MARIA EDGEWORTH to MISS SOPHY RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 9, '98.

But I was so much prejudiced against the whole by the first lines I opened upon about the "paralytic muse" of the man who had been his guardian, and is his relation, and to whom he had dedicated his first poems, that I could not relish his wit. He may have great talents, but I am sure he has neither a great nor good mind; and I feel dislike and disgust for his Lordship. To MISS RUXTON.

Many people support themselves by writing for journals, and by translating English books, yet the price of literature seems very low, and the price of all the necessaries of life very high. The influx of English has, they say, doubled the price of lodgings and of all luxuries. MARIA EDGEWORTH to MRS. RUXTON. PARIS, Dec. 1, 1802.

If the three children were wild in England they were double wild at Blois. Pear-headed Mr. Du Pre stuck tenaciously to his work, but Miss Ruxton gave up in despair and returned to England. At a dancing party the boys learnt what it was to fall in love.