Late in the evening they arrived safe at home, and my father presented his bride to his expecting, anxious family.
'Of her first entrance and appearance that evening I can recollect only the general impression, that it was quite natural, without effort or pretension.

The chief thing remarkable was, that she, of whom we were all thinking so much, seemed to think so little of herself.

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'The sisters of the late Mrs.Edgeworth, those excellent aunts (Mrs.
Mary and Charlotte Sneyd), instead of returning to their English friends and relations, remained at Edgeworth Town.