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248 widow, who, from her own experience, could well appreciate those innumerable anxieties of maternity, and for her part left nothing unsaid that could tend to lessen the uneasiness of Mrs. De Brooke, assuring her that no care that a mother could bestow should be wanting to render her children happy and comfortable. Thus assured, Mrs. De Brooke had the additional satisfaction of seeing them carried to their respective beds, after partaking of various little attentions impossible to have been paid them by their mother in their present situation.

Regarding Mrs. Herbert as a ministering agent in this her great calamity, she took a grateful and affectionate leave of her, and invoking heavenly blessings on her children, she left them with an agitated heart to return to their father.