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There is a little oval picture at the National Gallery in Dublin, the photograph of a sketch at Edgeworthstown House, which gives one a very good impression of the family as it must have appeared in the reigns of King George and the third Mrs. Edgeworth. The father in his powder and frills sits at the table with intelligent, well-informed finger showing some place upon a map.
Without it characters may be very snug and comfortable in the world, but there is a degree of happiness which they will never taste, and of which they have no more idea than an oyster can have. To MRS. EDGEWORTH. BLACK CASTLE, Oct. 1812. After a most delightful journey with Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton were paying a visit at Edgeworthstown, when the papers announced Mr.
She took advantage of a group of superb old chestnut-trees, with oak and ash for a background, which had never been noticed in that terra incognita; now it is a fairy land, embowered round with evergreens. To-morrow Hercules and Mrs. Pakenham come, with all their children a party of thirteen! To MRS. R. BUTLER. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Oct. 9, 1832.
Edgeworthstown was, and is, a large country mansion, to which additions have been from time to time made, but made judiciously. An avenue of venerable trees leads to it from the public road. It is distant about seven miles from the town of Longford. The only room I need specially refer to is the library; it belonged more peculiarly to Maria, although the general sitting-room of the family.
"Oh," said Lady Darnley, "when the Queen of Scots was talking to Darnley, it would not have done for me to have been too near them." MRS. EDGEWORTH to MISS SOPHY RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 3, 1806. Your account of the whole affair is really admirable, and is one of those tales of real life in which the romance is far superior to the generality of fictions.
Infant and nurse, and lady's-maid, and gentleman's gentleman, and Sir Culling and the fair Isabella all came over to Ireland last September, just as Fanny had left us, and she meeting them in Dublin, and conceiving that nurse and baby would not do for Connemara, wrote confidentially to beg us to invite them to stay at Edgeworthstown, while father and mother, and maid, and man, were to proceed on their travels.
It has always been my fault to let the moral I had in view appear too soon and too clearly, and I am not surprised that my old fault, notwithstanding some pains which I certainly thought I took to correct it, should still abide by me. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 6, 1834.
We then went on to Malvern, where Mrs. MARIA to MRS. RUXTON. MALVERN LINKS, June 1813. How good you have been, my dear aunt, in sparing Sophy to Edgeworthstown, and since you have been so good it is in encroaching human nature to expect that you will be still better, and that you and my uncle and Mag will come to Edgeworthstown for her; we shall be home in a fortnight.
Hamilton Grey in too: Fanny sat on Honora's lap, and all was right and happy; and even little I not at all tired. When I had got thus far, Sir Thomas Acland came in; I had met him at Sir Robert Inglis's. He was full of Edgeworthstown and your kindness to him, my dear mother.
There is a cock here who is as great a tyrant in his own way as Buonaparte, and a poor Barbary cock who has no claws, has the misfortune to live in the same yard with him; he will not suffer this poor defenceless fellow to touch a morsel or grain of all the good things Margaret throws to them till he and all his protegees are satisfied. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Feb. 26, 1805.
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