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mattery? expectorations. It makes my heart ache to look at him especially when he is kind and pleasant, you know since he has been sick, he has been cross + peevish but he has suffered so very much and so constantly, I blame myself for having minded it, and it makes me feel very unhappy. My own health has been very bad this summer and I am thin and old and frail, very little would tip me over. I would not promise to hold out against Romaine's sacrifice I cannot resist any thing now my frail old body just sinks and I have to go to bed, as weak as a cat. judge then how I felt when you told her in your last letter, that if she met any oppostition to come to you. O Johnny, you won't uphold her in it, will you, while I live. When I was in Gallipolis Mrs Lupper? told me she knew Jupage folded hatter? and she said I knew him too as he must have been often at our house, it seems he belonged to a commission of gentlemen to examine the ohio and was sometime in Gallipolis, but it is so long ago I do not remember now. 5" I could not finish this in time for the mail, it has been an exciting morning, Pa saw Mr. Wade, told he wished a clear understanding, no engagement +c. He[underlined] said he was committed and would not give up his engagement etc? Pa told him under those? circumstances the less frequent his visits were the better, and he would allow no correspondence. So he went in a huff of course, Romaine has promised me to wait a year without seeing him or corresponding, perhaps in that time we may all be dead. Very privately between you + me, I really do not think Romaine's love very deep hence much of my opposition. If he had been a healthy fine looking man I think all minor objections would have vanished.