Sofiia93

Dearest Eliza, I am greatly grieved to hear of the death of Georgiana.  May God-speed your beloved sister on the winged arms of angels.  May she… Ah, forgive me, cousin.  I am at best, a merely adequate  liar, and I know you, as a good Christian,  disapprove of any falsehoods, no matter how sweetened they are by genteel words of charity.  Neither of us bore any great love for Georgiana; while she lived I could not even muster pity for her dissipated state.  But I must confess: upon her death, I feel a most unusual affection for her memory,  a kind of curious elation.  I live, Eliza—I breathe and move and walk, while poor Georgiana