The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney)
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney)

Author: Frances Burney

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-07

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781355799801

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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Author: Fanny Burney

Publisher: General Books

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780217578868

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... XXVI. (i8i5-8) AT BATH AND ILFRACOMBE: GENERAL D'ARBLAY'S ILLNESS AND DEATH. Arr1val 1n England. Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke and Mrs. Angerstein.) Dover, Oct. 18, 1815. AST night, my ever dear friends, we arrived once more in old England. I write this to send the moment I land in London. I cannot boast of our health, our looks, our strength; but I hope we may recover a part of all when our direful fatigues, mental and corporeal, cease to utterly weigh upon and wear us. We shall winter in Bath. The waters of Plombieres have been recommended to my poor boiteux,1 but he has obtained a conge that allows this change. Besides his present utter incapacity for military service, he is now unavoidably on the relraite list, and the King of France permits his coming over, not alone without difficulty, but with wishing him a good journey, through the Due de Luxembourg, his captain in the gardes du corps. Adieu, dearest both!--Almost I embrace you in dating from Dover. Had you my letter from Treves? I suspect not, for my melancholy new history would have brought your kind condolence: or, otherwise, that missed me. Our letters were almost all intercepted by the Prussians while we were 1 i.e. M. d'Arblay, who was, it appears, still lame (boiteux) from the kick which he had received from a horse.--Ed. 2 Half-pay. there. Not one answer arrived to us from Paris, save by private hands.... December 24, 1815. My heart has been almost torn asunder, of late, by the dreadful losses which the newspapers have communicated to me, of the two dearest friends1 of my absent partner; both sacrificed in the late sanguinary conflicts. It has been with difficulty I have forborne attempting to return to him; but a winter voyage might risk giving him another loss. The death of one of these ...

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Published: 1892

Total Pages: 1328

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.