Marriage by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
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2. Archibald Campbell, W.S., d. 1814; m. Miss Garden.
3. Lorn, d. 1801, at Demerara. 4. James, d. in India, 1804. } } 5. William Hamilton, d. 1804, in India. } Both Officers 6. Walter, W.S., d. 1856; m. Miss Gordon. 7. Jane (Mrs. Graham), d. 1846. 8. Janet (Mrs. Connell), d. 1848. 9. Helen _(_Mrs_._ Kinloch), d. 1866, at Torquay, aged 90. 10. Susan Edmonstone. "Your proposals flatter and delight me, but how in the name of Postage are we to transport our brains to and fro? I suppose we'd be pawning our flannel petticoats to bring about our heroine's marriage, and lying on straw to give her Christian burial. Part of your plot I like much, some not quite so well--for example, it wants a _moral_--your principal characters are good and interesting, and they are tormented and persecuted and punished from no fault, of their own_,_ and for no possible purpose. Now I don't think, like all penny-book manufacturers, that 'tis absolutely necessary that the good boys and girls should be rewarded and the naughty ones punished. Yet I think, where there is much tribulation, 'tis fitter it should be the _consequence_ rather than the |
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