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This son, having no turn for scholarship, ultimately went to sea, a
life which his hardihood and fearlessness of danger peculiarly
fitted him for. Some years afterwards he married an American lady
and settled in South Carolina.
It was, perhaps, a failure in this first experiment in education
which made Edgeworth devote so much care to the training of his
younger children.
CHAPTER 4
After six years of happiness Honora's health gave way, and
consumption set in; some months of anxious nursing followed
before she died, to the great grief of her husband. She left
several children, and her dying wish was that he should marry
her sister Elizabeth.
Mr. Edgeworth was, at first, benumbed by grief, and unable to
take an interest in his former pursuits; but in the society of
his wife's family he gradually recovered cheerfulness, and
began to consider his wife's dying advice to marry her sister.
He remarks: 'Nothing is more erroneous than the common
belief, that a man who has lived in the greatest happiness
with one wife will be the most averse to take another.
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