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to minister to your comfort : One favor
Sweet Sister I must ask! will you not
commit to my heart's sacred keeping, a
recital of our love for "Him" : from it's
very beginning to the present time & how,
when & where was the cruel blow that
had befallen us communicated to you?
I have been exceeding astonished to
hear that my Brother's love "has been
claimed for Miss Annette" : "he" always
spoke of her as one of his dearest & sweetest
friends, (& as such I have learned to love
her very dearly) but, I feel confident that
she knows, as well as I do, he entertained
no deeper feelings, than those of
friendship for her: that claim she has
in a very, very great degree, & no other friend
has a stronger (if as strong) than her own
sweet self: I would like so much to know
her: does she ever speak of me?
I dreamt of you as my precious Brother's
darling wife & on a visit to our home:
I was standing in the door-way, watching