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but to be dependant upon strangers or upon the parents of a beloved companion is mortifying. I could bear pain with comparative ease if were more pleasantly situated. every attention that is shown me by them only renders me more unhappy of what a compound of matter is the human heart composed if I was treated with neglect I should think it cruel and that I am treated kindly makes me quite as unhappy what an ungrateful heart truely not thankful for the blessings I enjoy how can I expect more. Pray that God will restore my health and with it a deep sense of duty and gratitude to him who gives us all things needful without health we can enjoy nothing with it everything. June the 1st this day completed my 18th year time flies swiftly but a short time ago and I was a little romping girl happy as a child could be but how has the scene changed through how many afflictions have I waded since then I had parents; now they are gone to that terrain from where no traveller returns. Oh what strange and unexpected vicissitudes will a short time effect may God give me a heart that shall burst in him and