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 many schemes in my head for future practice—humble and limited indeed—but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done. Remember me respectfully to your mother and sisters, and believe me, dear Miss, yours most affectionately,

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It must have been about this time that Anne composed her last verses, before "the desk was closed, and the pen laid aside for ever."