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together until, very quietly, we fall asleep. It is a great
pleasure to me to converse with Agatha, about any thing.
“ Vivent les gens d’esprit!” It is refreshing to live with
somebody who can understand every thing, and who is
always ready prepared with sense and wit, especially when
this is joined to real goodness. With the truly good and
the truly sensible we inhale fresh air, and if even now and
then we should come upon small stumbling-blocks, we do
not run against or stick fast upon them.
You are on a Sailing-excursion very unlike ours (Heaven
knows how I have managed to get out to sea, from whence
it seems as if I could not come back). Yours is more ex-
citing, but also more unquiet. Your four boys occasion
many contrary winds, and you sail amongst reefs and
sunken rocks. But while love and good sense are at the
helm, you have a prosperous voyage, and I am sure that
after a heavy day, yon exclaim in the silent hours of night,
gratefully, “ All’s well!” and then I would join with you
in a “Thank God!” for it is His spirit in the heart of
man which leads them victoriously through dangers and
difficulties.
But I must now make for port with my epistle. I em-
brace you in thought and beg you to remember me kindly
to your husband.
Ansta, 18th July, 1841.
“You say, my dearest Frances, that you feel yourself
getting older, and feel the consequences thereof. I also
have for some years (and I am a couple of years older
than you are) distinctly felt within me this transition to an
advanced season in life. I have welcomed and blessed it.
It does me so much good to feel the cooling evening breeze
fan my temples and my heart; to feel how it gains more
and more peace and calmuess, and I thus look at life with
a clearer eye. This autumn of life is dear to me. Its sun
is less scorching and often brighter than summer’s sun,
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