Hortense

all the endearing manners of the poor child over whose loss we weep.\"

Again she wrote, probably the next day, in answer to a letter from Hortense:

\"Your letter has affected me deeply, my dear daughter. I see how profound and unvarying is your grief. And I perceive it still more sensibly by the anguish which I experience myself. We have lost that which in every respect was the most worthy to be loved. My tears flow


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all the endearing manners of the poor child over whose loss we weep.\"

Again she wrote, probably the next day, in answer to a letter from Hortense:

\"Your letter has affected me deeply, my dear daughter. I see how profound and unvarying is your grief. And I perceive it still more sensibly by the anguish which I experience myself. We have lost that which in every respect was the most worthy to be loved. My tears flow


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