[Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales by Maria Edgeworth]@TWC D-Link bookMurad the Unlucky and Other Tales CHAPTER XI 1/9
CHAPTER XI. "Cosi rozzo diamante appena splende Dalla rupe natia quand' esce fuora, E a poco a poco lucido se rende Sotto l'attenta che lo lavora." Madame de Fleury joined her husband, who was in London, and they both lived in the most retired and frugal manner.
They had too much of the pride of independence to become burthensome to their generous English friends.
Notwithstanding the variety of difficulties they had to encounter, and the number of daily privations to which they were forced to submit, yet they were happy--in a tranquil conscience, in their mutual affection, and the attachment of many poor but grateful friends.
A few months after she came to England, Madame de Fleury received, by a private hand, a packet of letters from her little pupils.
Each of them, even the youngest, who had but just begun to learn joining-hand, would write a few lines in this packet. In various hands, of various sizes, the changes were rung upon these simple words:-- "MY DEAR MADAME DE FLEURY, "I love you--I wish you were here again--I will be _very very_ good whilst you are away.
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