Sentence:  This employment I considered as the only satisfaction I could offer to the memory of your unfortunate mother, and I flatter myself that if she could look down, it would give her angelic mind pleasure even in <WSD>paradise</WSD>, to behold me instilling into the minds of her children, sentiments congenial with her own. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.