“My dear Miss Edgeworth,—The confirmation of the newspaper report of Charles Scott’s death never arrived till last night—the Persian Minister’s messenger having been stopped by our Ambassador at Vienna for a week. I had no doubt of the truth of the sad story—but still could not write to you, as I otherwise would have been sure to do, in the absence of direct intelligence.
“I am very grateful for all your kind thoughts and
recollections. Charles has only joined a
company who are, and ever will be, as present to me, while memory remains, as
if they still were partakers in what we call Life. It is, however, a very
serious
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