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209 Mrs. Trollope stayed only ten days at Nashoba (the name of Miss Wright's place then). Possessing none of that true, daring heroism of character which distinguished her friend, and enabled her to rise superior to the petty discomforts of her chosen life, she left, disgusted and homesick, because she found none of the luxuries to which she had been accustomed, nor any society in which to shine as the “bright particular star.” Of her stay there she wrote as follows: "Desolate was the only word, the only feeling that presented itself. I think Miss Wright was aware of the painful impression the sight of her forest home produced on me, and I doubt not that the conviction reached us both at the same moment that we had erred in thinking that a few months passed together at this spot could be productive of pleasure to either. But to do her justice, I believe her mind was so exclusively occupied by the object she had in view, that all things else were worthless or indifferent to her. I never