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The severe winters in that latitude told upon her physical organization and caused an illness which somewhat interrupted her prog- ress in her studies ; but she left the seminary, carrying with her acquisitions in her knowledge which her quick perception, energy, and industry rendered unusually extended, with the stimulus and suggestions which contact with such an order of minds as were teachers in that school of learn- ing must give, and with her affections enriched by friendships, the delight...ful intimacies of which death alone interrupted. On the Continent. 27 III Travel Abroad. IN 1851 she went abroad with her sister Catha- rine, Mrs. Bliss, and her brother-in-law, George Bliss. The circumstance of her going and being with Mr. And Mrs. Bliss while she was in Great Britain, aided her much in the harvest of ideas which she gathered abroad. For they at that time lived in England, and thus she saw, through them and their friends, English life and English homes ; and, too, they were of such active minds and discriminating judgments as to aid vastly a younger traveler capacitated and eager to learn.
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