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Memoirs of Sir George Sinclair, Bart., of Ulbster
Memoirs of Sir George Sinclair Bart of Ulbster Author:James Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Tinsley Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select ... more »from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Vous pourrez aisement resoudre cet enigmc, ce n'est pas a moi qu'il faut dire qu'on ne sent pas le prix d'un bonheur que quand on est pret a le perdre, moi je suis toujours sensible a quelque bien qui s'offre pour ma jouissance puisque je ne m'attends a aucun. Adieu! Catherine Smith. In the ensuing letter Lady Osborne appears as a young bride, married to a man vastly her senior. In the series following, the unconscious auto-biographical outline of her career will be traced, though often at great intervals of time. In this one she gives a description of her Irish home as it appeared to her, magnified by contrast with the small house and flat landscape to which she had been accustomed. In those days Irish establishments were composed of many supernumeraries in each department of the household; audit is evident that the bride expected to find a backward state of civilization in the land to which she came as a stranger. Newtown, May 10th, 1816. Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. My Dear Aunt, -- I suppose you have received from my mother an account of our landing safely at Donaghadee, and how remarkably well travelling agrees with me. Change of air completely cured my cold, and the early hours I have kept, and still continue to keep, have restored my bloom. You will be glad to hear that I was greatly pleased at the reception I met with at Judge Osborne's. Sir Thomas found a letter at Drogheda from Mrs. Osborne, in which she entreated us to turn out of the Dublin road and join them at their country house, which is situated about ten miles from the city. It is a very pretty place. They...« less