I assure you it has been the greatest satisfaction, comfort, and delight to me, to hear what a musical society I am got into.

I absolutely cannot do without music.

It is a necessary of life to me; and having always been used to a very musical society, both at Maple Grove and in Bath, it would have been a most serious sacrifice.

I honestly said as much to Mr.E.when he was speaking of my future home, and expressing his fears lest the retirement of it should be disagreeable; and the inferiority of the house too--knowing what I had been accustomed to--of course he was not wholly without apprehension.
When he was speaking of it in that way, I honestly said that _the_ _world_ I could give up--parties, balls, plays--for I had no fear of retirement.

Blessed with so many resources within myself, the world was not necessary to _me_.