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LETTER XVIII. 



FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. 



DEAR EMILY, 



After a very pleasant excursion through the 

 Isle of Anglesey, I am again fixed under the protec- 

 tion of my kind friend Mrs. Saville, who has the 

 valuable art of rendering " to-morrow cheerful as to- 

 day ;" and, by a happy succession of employment for 

 the body and the mind, teaching her inmates to be 

 contented with themselves, and strangers to ennui. 

 Every one of her family feels the sympathy of friend- 

 ship for each other. She well knows how to mix the 

 dignity of authority with kindness. Her servants are 

 bound to her, not merely by the sordid ties of interest, 

 but by those of affection : they daily feel her solici- 

 tude for their most important concerns, and they re- 

 ward her care by unfeigned attachment. Old Sarah 

 was as much rejoiced to see us safely returned as Mrs. 

 Saville herself She lived with my aunt before Rachel 

 was born ; and though she treats her with great re- 

 spect, she is as fond of her as if she were her mother. 



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