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if I should be so, I can be better nursed by the people 

 belonging to this house than it would be decorous for 

 you to do. Madame de Rumford sometimes talks a 

 little at random." 



This frank correspondent informs the Countess : "My 

 opinion is, that Madame would be ready to do you any 

 little services, but that you have not to expect great 

 ones from her." 



After her stay in Paris from 1820 to 1823, during 

 which interval, as before stated, her wise friend Sir 

 Charles Blagden had died, the Countess returned to 

 England, where she lived, principally at Brompton, till 

 August, 1835, when she came to America. Here she 

 remained till the last of July, 1838, when she again 

 went abroad. She lived mostly at Paris, till July, 1844, 

 when she came back to her native place, occupying the 

 house and the chamber in which she was born, where 

 also she died, on December 2, 1852, in her seventy- 

 ninth year. It appears by her correspondence with her 

 friend, Mrs. James F. Baldwin, of Boston, that the 

 Countess two months before her decease had been 

 packing and storing her effects, and proposing to lease 

 her house in Concord, with a view again to visit 

 Paris. 



That house in Concord has interest for us as the one 

 in which the Count lived after his first marriage, and 

 whence he had to hurry secretly away from the visit of 

 an angry mob of village patriots. The use to which 

 his daughter bequeathed the estate in fulfilment of 

 the charitable design which she and her father had 

 more than fifty years before planned in Munich, on the 

 occasion of the celebration of his birthday enhances 

 its interest. Her half-brother, Paul Rolfe, died in 



