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& make the best of it, for I love you more, & think more of you than you sometimes have thought." For these words of affection I thank you & I assure you I fully appreciate them. The sweetest things in all the world to me are words & tokens of love & affection from you, & I hope & trust it will always be so. I think from what I have quoted from your letter above that your feelings & mine are the same upon this subject. I am sure I could not have expressed my own feelings as regards our farm in any different language. Let us look this matter then right in the face & see if the facts about it have any different look to you from what they have to me. In this world of ours there are all conditions of wealth, from the most abject poverty through gradations up to princely fortunes. While we live here we have got to have shelter four ourselves & family, food to eat & clothe to wear. Had we a princely fortune