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All his facts are most curious, and the exclamation, "how fearfully and wonderfully we are made," may be extended to the ugliest tadpole that wabbles in a ditch till he is a frog, and the microscope invented by that creature man endowed with Luckily a hair in my pen stopped me, or I might have gone on to another page, in my hot fit of enthusiasm. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 1835.
It may sound strange, but it is nevertheless true, that, in Miss Beaufort, even more than in her predecessors, he gave to his children a wise and kind mother, and a most entirely devoted friend. MISS EDGEWORTH to MISS BEAUFORT. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 16, 1798. Whilst you, my dear Miss Beaufort, have been toiling in Dublin, my father has been delighting himself in preparations for June.
To MRS. R. BUTLER. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 20, 1832. Can you conceive yourself to be an old lamp at the point of extinction, and dreading the smell you would make at going out, and the execrations which in your dying flickerings you might hear? And then you can conceive the sudden starting up again of the flame, when fresh oil is poured into the lamp.
The present owner of Edgeworthstown told us that he could just remember her, lying dead upon her bed, and her face upon the pillow, and the sorrowful tears of the household; and how he and the other little children were carried off by a weeping aunt into the woods, to comfort and distract them on the funeral day. He also told us of an incident prior to this event which should not be overlooked.
To MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, August 16, 1824. We have heard from Sophy Fox, who tells us that they have been delighted with their journey to Aberystwith, especially the devil's bridge. Can you tell me why the devil has so many bridges, sublime and beautiful, in every country of the habitable world?
He has been so kind and considerate about poor Lucy, so anxious not to deprive her too suddenly of her beloved, and best of nurses, that he has endeared himself the more to us all. To MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, March 18, 1824. The indissoluble knot is tied! What an awful ceremony it is! What an awful deed!
This he means to lay out in bread and rice and meal not all in soup; that he may encourage them to cook at home and not be mere craving beggars. To LADY BEAUFORT. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 8, 1847.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Nov. 27, 1825. Our two boys were at home in August, and the happiest of the happy with two ponies and four sisters. Francis's poem of "Saul" won a medal, and Pakenham's "Jacob," a miniature Horace. You may have seen in the papers the account of the burning of Castle Forbes, in the county of Longford.
Nimmo built for his own residence when he was overseer of the roads, now turned into an inn, kept by his Scotch servant, who used to come with him to Edgeworthstown, and he gave us bread and butter and milk, and moreover, hare-soup, such as the best London tavern might have envied.
I may be permitted to add a word on the respect with which Miss Edgeworth treats the public their former indulgence has not made her careless or presuming. The dates subjoined to these stories show that they have not been hastily intruded upon the reader. Edgeworthstown, March, 1809. "'Que faites-vous a Potzdam? demandois-je un jour an prince Guillaume.
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