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Updated: May 1, 2025
After your sad account of your dear wife and her falls in escaping we feared much for her, but what a joy to have another living babe in place of the sweet little one whom the Good Shepherd has folded in His own arms.... How mysterious it seems that everything, just when completed, should thus in a moment have been destroyed; and then, just when the fire came, that the children should have been so ill: but if trials like these do make us cling the more to the Mighty One shall it not be well?... L550 is now in hand for you, and more keeps coming in."
In the midst of all her domestic labours, however, Lady Morgan contrived to finish a novel, O'Donnel, which Colburn published in 1814, and for which she received L550. The book was ill-reviewed, but it was an even greater popular success than The Wild Irish Girl.
"Well, I believe he has," said Bertie, "but all the money I ever got from him was L150." "And what became of the L550?" "Why, sir, the commission was L100 or so, and I took the remainder in paving-stones and rocking-horses." "Paving-stones and rocking-horses!" said the doctor. "Where are they?" "Oh, sir, I suppose they are in London somewhere but I'll inquire if you wish for them."
Certainly it was wonderful how the money came in for re-building our burnt Institution. The English fund kept mounting up. First it was L250; that was a little more than a week after the telegram was received, and before any details had arrived. Eighteen days after the fire it was L518; a week later, L550.
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