Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 108

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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.


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  1. Formerly Miss Mordecai.