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between the sexagenarian bachelor and the Httle 

 girl such as one sometimes sees between a grandfather 

 and grandchild. The friendship continued for many years. 

 On the child's return to Gwrych her mother wrote — " I 

 should be very ungrateful indeed, my dear sir, if I did 

 not endeavor again by zvords to express to you how very 

 deeply I am impressed by your repeated acts of kindness 

 to my two girls, and to convince you that I am not 

 unmindful of them ; though nwrds are all I have to offer 

 in return — but I am sure you have your reward viost 

 amply in your own gratification, for I know from experience 

 how much more delightful it is to oblige, than to be 

 obliged. My little Harriett is all gratitude to you for 

 your constant goodness to her, and she has represented 

 to me in her own enthusiastic language, what unmerited 

 attention you have bestowed upon her, during her late 

 disorder, and how liberally the first fruits of your sweet 

 garden were devoted to cool her little heated mouth." In 

 the same letter !Mrs. Browne pressed Mr. Nicholson to 

 visit Gwrych, and as he had apparently declined a pre- 

 vious invitation because he was an invalid subsisting on a 

 milk diet, countered the excuse very smartly. " Be 

 assured," she writes, " that a cordial welcome would 

 receive you, and we would endeavour to make up in 

 sincerity, what we want in splendor — the most liberal 

 abundance prevails in the Dairy and I find it very conve- 

 nicfit to put all my friends upon a milk diet, from the 

 kind plea of it being so conducive to health and at the 

 same time so suitable to an exhausted pocket. Do not 

 you think I am very considerate to my friends ?"' In the 

 same letter (June 28th, 1808) she says "I anticipate the 

 pleasure of your sincere congratulations on the appear- 

 ance of Felicia's book, under such flattering auspices ; and 

 here again I am at a loss how to tell you of my sensations 



