Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 108

To MRS. EDGEWORTH.

TRIM, July 25, 1838.

Mrs. Lazarus's death did indeed shock and grieve me. But it is, as you say, the condition, the doom of advancing, advanced age, to see friend after friend go; but in proportion as it detaches one from life, it still more makes us value the friends we have left. And continually, at every fresh blow, I really wonder, and am thankful, most truly thankful, that I have so many, so much left.