Life of Count Rumford. 



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During her childhood her mother's invalidism made 

 her familiar with the sick-chamber, and there is really 

 an exquisite delicacy of drawing in Sally's delineation of 

 this scene. 



She was sent, for two or three seasons, to Mrs. 

 Snow's boarding-school in Boston, that she might be 

 taught dancing and other accomplishments, and she 

 made many agreeable acquaintances in the town. Her 

 mother, with recovered health and with tender kind- 

 ness, during the long winter evenings would read and 

 tell stories to her and her half-brother, Paul Rolfe. It 

 would hardly be fair to the daughter to suppress the 



