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In March, Miss Edgeworth accompanied her father and stepmother to
England.
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MARIA to MRS. MARY SNEYD.
BANGOR FERRY, March 31, 1813.
"I will go and write a few lines of a letter to my dear Aunt Mary."
"Oh! why should you write now, my dear? You have nothing new to tell her."
"Nothing new, but I love her, and wish to write to her; if I did not love her, I should be worse than Caliban."
"Well, write only a few lines."
"That is just what I mean to do, and go on with my letter at any odd place where we stop the night."