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'JAMES HEYWOOD. 'Love to and from all ten thousand times.' The worthy Mr.Graham adds, 'If, my dearest Madam, it were ever given for mortals to be supremely blest on earth, mine to be sure must be the happy family.
Heavens! with what unbounded extravagance have we been forming our wishes! and yet how far beyond our most unbounded wishes we are blest! Nessy, Maria,[34] Peter, and James, I see, have all been endeavouring to express their feelings.
I will not fail in any such attempt, for I will not attempt anything beyond an assurance that the scene I have been witness of, and in which I am happily so great a sharer, beggars all description.
Permit me however to offer my most sincere congratulations upon the joyful occasion.' This amiable young lady, some of whose letters have been introduced into this narrative, did not long survive her brother's liberty.
This impassioned and most affectionate of sisters, with an excess of sensibility, which acted too powerfully on her bodily frame, sunk, as is often the case with such susceptible minds, on the first attack of consumption.
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