The things we do!

How different from that more
lengthened and dangerous passage of eight months, and almost perpetual
sea-sickness, in which my poor dear sister Emma went to Bengal, to become
the wife of the best of husbands and the mother of the dearest of little
boys, and to enjoy these inestimable blessings for so brief an interval!
She has quitted this wicked and wretched world for one where all is
peace. The misery and ill-treatment which she endured from Captain Case
her first odious husband, were, I am sure, amply repaid, my dear Colonel,
by your subsequent affection. If the most sumptuous dresses which London,
even Paris, could supply, jewellery the most costly, and elegant lace,
and everything lovely and fashionable, could content a woman, these, I am
sure, during the last four years of her life, the poor girl had. Of what
avail are they when this scene of vanity is closed?
"Mr. Sneid announces that the passage was most favourable. They stayed a
week at the Cape, and three days at St.


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