To MRS. EDGEWORTH.
DUNMOE COTTAGE, Nov. 8, 1834.
I hope, my dear mother, that you have been wondering every day, and
wondering greatly that you have never yet heard from Maria. I like
that you should wonder and be provoked at not hearing from me, because
when a letter comes it is opened with much more appetite than if you had
not been kept famishing.
I have not told you how very nice and comfortable Sophy and Margaret
Ruxton have made this cottage, and the situation is charming, and the
view beautiful. I am reading Hannah More's Letters, and am entertained
with them. I found at Black Castle four volumes of Madame d'Abrantès, which I had never read: the eleventh volume begins with her going to Portugal, and though half may be lies well dressed, yet almost all are entertaining.
