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Rosehill
Aug 28th
Your letter is charming, cher enfant, & cheered me for a whole day. That I do not send you a long letter in return, you must ascribe to no lack of love for you but to a daily increasing lack of love for letter-writing. Your picture of yourself & your environment was so interesting that I ventured to share it with Mrs. Bray. We both rejoice in the prospect of domestic comfort & congenial occupation for your good brother. Pray remember me to him & tell him he has my hearty sympathy. In this matter of letter-writing I wish you would give, asking for nothing again that is, if writing to me be the least pleasure to you. To me the smallest detail about you is interesting, but I cannot write about myself save to one or two people in the world.
We are all quite well – just returned from a visit to Stratford. I shall see you again before long – for I am to be stationary for the winter I believe. In the meantime there are but two words of very vital significance for you & me & all mortals – Resignation & labour – perhaps there may come as the crown of these divine unselfish love & from this again light.
Ever your friend
Mary Ann Evans
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