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me too presumptious: A Sister's place
you have long held in my affections &
oh! how earnestly I hoped that you
might one day be made thus near & dear
to me, for never in all my life before
had I seen or heard of one that I felt
I could be willing for my idolized
Brother to love more than he did his
"little Pet," but when he told me, first,
of your unceasing kindness to him,
(for well he knew that this would
be a sure key with which to open
my heart for your admittance) & then in
glowing terms, spoke of such a heart,
mind & soul as he thought no other
woman on earth possessed; 'twas then
(hard as the struggle was at first)
that I felt to call you Sister, I would
be willing to resign the choicest
place in his affections; never in his
life, had he breathed to any woman
one single vow of love; & I gloried in
the knowledge of it, for, as I before said,