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for each letter received from you,
Bettie, darling Sister, makes you
dearer & dearer to my heart, but
me thinks, could I exchange, pen,
ink & paper, for a place by your
side, with my hand in your own,
my head, on your shoulder, & your
arm encircling me, I would be at
no loss for words to express my
feelings ; & yet dearest, sweetest,
best Sister, so sincere, so intense,
so sacred is the love I bear you,
I would e'en have to borrow from
the fairies some of their own na-
tive eloquence, in order to do justice
to the feelings ; believe you, this?
ah! doubt it now, if you can, but
at some future day when I stand
before you, with your hand's im-
prisoned in my own & pressed closely