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love as well as of sorrow
and you may be sure that your
courageous piety in nerving yourself
to the tasks of duty to your children
and to your position excites them
both with regard to you.

There is great comfort in the
thought that those who have gone
from us – and all must go – still
share our tasks in spirit and
rejoice in our success in what is
good. Your good mother felt that
comfort – you felt it when she
was gone, and it will be with
you now. It cannot remove
grief or absolutely fill a void,
but it hallows the one & supplies
gracious thoughts in room of the other.

If earnest sympathy can help
you you have it both at Send Grove
& Bromley, and I need hardly
say that our talk has been of you.

Never having seen the Normans
and having only seen Mr Onslow long
ago I cannot tell relatively how
they are looking. Mr Norman though