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.' Mrs.Edgeworth died in the autumn of the year 1797.

Maria adds: 'I have heard my father say, that during the seventeen years of his marriage with this lady, he never once saw her out of temper, and never received from her an unkind word or an angry look,' Edgeworth paid the same compliment to his third wife which he had done to his second--he quickly replaced her.

His fourth wife was the daughter of Dr.Beaufort, a highly qultivated man, whose family were great friends of Mrs.Ruxton, Edgeworth's sister.