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-fore you leave for your distant home. Is it possible Abby that you are going to leave us? and shall I never see you again? Many years may elapse ere we meet again, but I pray that the warm, friendly feelings which now exist between us will still be cherished, although we may be widely separated. I shall often think of you in your new home and hope that you will occasionally write me of it. Please say to Mary that her long-looked-for letter was received with grateful pleasure, and also the little love token which I found enclosed. I will endeavor to write her very soon. Also present my thanks to Nora for her remembrance of me, and say to her that I am sorry I so deceived her in regard to a certain subject, but I did not intend that she should regard it so seriously. When I write her I will give an explanation. Oh! how I should like to be with you now! What good times you will all have when Charlie joins you. In some of your "good times" will you give a thought to cousin Agnes and think