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task she imposed on Mr. Nicholson was to use his 

 influence with her mother, the wealthy, but evidently 

 stingy, Mrs. Wagner, to provide the money for the fresh 

 equipment of the soldier grandson. " Forgive my 

 entreating you to take the trouble of applying to her," 

 she says, "but I think she cannot refuse you." The old 

 lady did refuse, however, " but," writes Mrs. Browne, in a 

 later letter, " I am as much indebted to your exertions as 

 if they had been successful." 



In March, 1809, the Brownes removed from Gwrych 

 to Bronwhilfa. " I have taken," says Mrs. Browne, " a 

 little cottage in the neighbourhood of St. Asaph, where it 

 would give me and my daughters the highest gratification 

 to see you. It is pleasantly situated on the banks of the 

 Clwyd, and is ten miles nearer Liverpool than where we 

 now are, so that the journey would not be so serious an 

 undertaking, and your society would be an invaluable 

 acquisition to my two girls." In the same letter (4th 

 March, 1809) Mrs. Browne writes: "Felicia was much 

 gratified by the letter you had the kindness to write her, 

 and she bids me say that it made her heart glow with 

 pleasure, as she was convinced the sentiments of friend- 

 ship you profess for her, are sincere. She will write to 

 you herself after we are settled in our new habitation." 

 The promised letter was dated 1 8th April, and with it 

 was sent a copy of a letter from her eldest brother giving 

 an account of the taking of Martinique. The brother 

 had been wounded, but his spirit and enthusiasm were 



unaffected : — 



" Bronwhilfa, i8th April, 1809. 

 My Dear Sir, — 



The letter which my Mother has transcribed for your perusal on 

 the other side, we received yesterday from my eldest Brother. You 

 may easily imagine what blended emotions of tenderness, pride, and 

 affection, it excited in our Bosoms. Deeply as I feel for the sufferings 

 my dearest Brother must have endured, still I can hardly regret that 



