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your own busniess best." I should say so too

- but where my business is essentially

yours and concerns our happiness mutually

successful or unsuccessful - as the case

may be. do I err to depend in part

on your advice? Do I ask anything

unreasonable or anything that your

are unable to answer? I guess not!!

send me a suggestion then resting assured

meanwhile, that absent or present my

heart is  yours and verily, I may add

my life. Your future happiness is safely

Entrusted to my keeping, "right dear" is

the charge and affectionately will I

keep it.

     Your kind mothers letter reached

me and like Mr Martin's sacrament

"it shall be attended to" she says she

heard from Alvah, and wrote to him

for she "has now (two dear boys") one

of them doubtless myself. though both

have been weak and erring. but

know that Celia loves them only the