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The Floral King. ‘207
cares and activity, it settles into melancholy.
This would, for certain, shorten your days, dear
Madam, more than the worst drudgery.
“Tf you, dear Madam, sell your landed estates
and retire, the consequence will be that you, dear
Madam, will be cheated of your money and get an
ailing body; the home will be broken up, the
children at variance, the love diminished, and every-
thing ruined.
“ Nothing is so stable that it cannot be destroyed
in the morning, and the strong die as readily as the
weak, whereby expectations of long forestalling are
wrecked.
‘Parents frequently love their children more than
themselves, but the children do not return the love,
if interest be not the attraction, for the branch takes
its nourishment from the stem, but the stem does
not get it returned from the branch. Look at others
who have taken up their abode with their children,
and given them everything, if that ever has produced
that emulation in respect towards the parents, as
when they get the inheritance after their demise.
“You, dear Madam, who have so long loved that
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