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careful, and thankful too, as I doubt not you are: I feared your unfortunate excursion had put you back instead of being a benefit. I think you plan of doing without a girl next winter a pleasant one certainly, and a good one, if Mother will do just what her strength will allow, but we know that she is prone to go beyond it. I wish I could be there too, how we would all enjoy it and to be at Milo too all together - our time together there last winter so much anticipated was short indeed, yet a time not to be forgotten. I'm glad Samuel is going to have a house of his own it will enable you to fee so much independent and save so much inconvenience in moving. but do not be in a hurry about it, have a good one. I hould think much of home or house not only convenient for work, but well done, completed before living in it, and pretty handsome too, for there is not a little happiness in having one idea of symmetry, beauty and good taste gratified and worth taking a little pains for, since it is about as easy for the smart and enterprising to reach a high standard as a low one. That really nice house at Hounpolen is spoiled by being cut up into little rooms. of you promist to make me 'a chamber in the wall,' to come home to, when I am 'aweary', I will engage to furnish it. have already got a little white pitcher, some bookshelves, and a pretty little glass fluid lamp! Your communicative companion of the boat, Miss Fike is known to Miss Woodbury, my chum, who is well acquainted with her friends says she has the reputation of being deranged. Though not so much as to be raving at all or very wild: her beau