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 344 MRS. TROLLOPE. quite as easy, and almost as cheap, to send a letter to any part of the British empire as it is from New York to Albany. That is the substance of a true civil service : first, get a man, and then keep him. Mrs. Trollope died in Florence in 1863, aged eighty- three years. In private life she was a very friendly and good soul, much admired and sought in the society of Florence, where she passed the last twenty years of her long life.