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Book, page 21 / 248 impossibilities? It is two years since we saw you, and we are tired of _recollecting_ how kind and agreeable you were. Are you the same Aunt Ruxton? Come and see whether we are the same, and whether there are any people in the world out of your own house who know your value better. During the hot weather the thermometer was often 80, and once 88. Mr. Neville, a banker, has taken a house here, and was to have been my father's travelling companion, but left him at Birmingham: he has a fishing-stool and a wife. We like the fishing-stool and the wife, but have not yet seen the family. My father last night wrote a letter of recommendation to you for a Mr. Jimbernat, a Spanish gentleman, son to the King of Spain's surgeon, who is employed by his Court to travel for scientific purposes: he drank tea with us, and seems very intelligent. Till I saw him I thought a Spaniard must be tall and stately: one may be mistaken. Adieu, for there are matters of high import coming, fit only for the pen of pens. R.L. EDGEWORTH in continuation. The matters of high importance, my dear sister, have been already communicated to you in brief, and indeed cannot be detailed by any but the parties. Dr. Beddoes, the object of Anna's vows,[Footnote: Dr. Thomas Beddoes, the celebrated physician and chemist, followed the Edgeworth family to Ireland, where he was married to Anna Edgeworth, Maria's youngest _own_ sister.] is a man of abilities, and of great name in the scientific world as a naturalist and chemist: good-humoured, good-natured, a man of honour and virtue, enthusiastic and sanguine, and very fond of Anna. MARIA _to_ MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, _Nov. 18, 1793._ This evening my father has been reading out Gay's _Trivia_ to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt, that you and Sophy had been sitting round the fire with us. If you have _Trivia_, and if you have time, will you humour your niece so far as to look at it? I think
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