Hortense

you did not need this new trial.

\"I have embraced your children for you. They also are deeply afflicted, and think of you very much. I am consoled in thinking that you will not forget us. I thank you for it, my dear Hortense, my daughter tenderly beloved.\"

Again, a few days after, this affectionate mother wrote to her grief-stricken child:

\"I can not permit your courier to leave without transmitting to you intelligence


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you did not need this new trial.

\"I have embraced your children for you. They also are deeply afflicted, and think of you very much. I am consoled in thinking that you will not forget us. I thank you for it, my dear Hortense, my daughter tenderly beloved.\"

Again, a few days after, this affectionate mother wrote to her grief-stricken child:

\"I can not permit your courier to leave without transmitting to you intelligence


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