262/791 My sister thanks Lady B.for her affectionate remembrance of her and her letter, and will write as soon as ever she feels herself able. Her health, as was to be expected, has suffered much. 1805. A thousand times have I asked myself, as your tender sympathy led me to do, 'why was he taken away ?' and I have answered the question as you have done. In fact, there is no other answer which can satisfy and lay the mind at rest. |