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istic sweetness and resignation, the concluding observation of our authoress thereon must not be suppressed.
"But I am getting too near complaint. It has been the appointment of God, however secondary causes may have operated."
The following and final extract will prove the facility with which she could correct every impatient thought, and turn from complaint to cheerfulness.
"You will find Captain a very respectable, well-meaning man, without much manner, his wife and sister all good humour and obligingness, and I hope (since the fashion allows it) with rather longer petticoats than last year."
London, Dec. 20, 1817.
