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because no other place was offered for them to meet, for all my faithful care and labour I have not been so much as thanked most persons would have made a hansome present feeling that that but poorly paid. She has spent a great deal of money she summer fitted her daughter out to school had to hire money to go her journey and to pay me. interest here is 15 percent, Ms. H. is receiving no salary, his small and poor society exhausting all their means on a new church for him to preach in, so they feel poor and one really straitened;

allowance must be made, it makes people mean to be poor, which is one of the most biting evils of [unclear].  I have learned some useful lessons in my experience here. I have been too good too obliging, too ready to exert myself for their interest and their good;  they praise me up to the skies, acknowledge my faithfulness to their interest, my effort for their advantage would be glad to have me stay could I teach algebra, but I verily believe come to actual treatment throughout it would have been better had I been more selfish cared for nothing but my own ease and inconvenience and acted independent of their interest;  whether this lesson will prove a [tacid?] one in respect to all the world, or whether there are some people capable of being generous and noble in their feelings I will wait for further experience to decide.  I hope to bring home besides the expenses of the journey about fifty dolls. for my years labour  

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I will write a line to Lucy if I can tell long enough before hand when I shall reach Bangor.