Tuesday Morning.
I seize this opportunity to inform you that I am to set out on Thursday
with Mr. ——, and hope to tell you soon (on your lips) how glad I shall
be to see you. I have just got my passport, so I do not foresee any
impediment to my reaching H——, to bid you good-night next Friday in my
new apartment—where I am to meet you and love, in spite of care, to
smile me to sleep—for I have not caught much rest since we parted.
You have, by your tenderness and worth, twisted yourself more artfully
round my heart, than I supposed possible.—Let me indulge the thought,
that I have thrown out some tendrils to cling to the elm by which I
wished to be supported.—This is talking a new language for me!—But,
knowing that I am not a parasite-plant, I am willing to receive the
proofs of affection, that every pulse replies to, when I think of being
once more in the same house with you.—God bless you!
Yours truly
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