Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 108
To MRS. EDGEWORTH.
TRIM, July 25, 1838.
Mrs. Lazarus's[1] death did indeed shock and grieve me. But it is, as you say, the condition, the doom of advancing, advanced age, to see friend after friend go; but in proportion as it detaches one from life, it still more makes us value the friends we have left. And continually, at every fresh blow, I really wonder, and am thankful, most truly thankful, that I have so many, so much left.
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ Formerly Miss Mordecai.