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Letter, 2 June 1859, pages 6-8 (Transcriptions Done!)

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 it anew to think he had loved her. Memories of low words, scarcely heard, but never forgotten; kisses dearer with each reiteration; golden plans frustrated; life's happiness sacrificed to the caprice of a moment; possessed and moved her beyond control. Even his friendship rejected - <q>Offer it but again W. Forrester, and I will take it humbly. Come and teach me what to do, and I will be led; come to me I will confess my faults - come - or rather never come;  lest I sob out my love lat your feet.</q>

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it anew to think he had loved her. Memories of low words, scarcely heard, but never forgotten; kisses dearer with each reiteration; golden plans frustrated; life's happiness sacrificed to the caprice of a moment; possessed and moved her beyond control. Even his friendship rejected - Offer it but again W. Forrester, and I will take it humbly. Come and teach me what to do, and I will be led; come to me I will confess my faults - come - or rather never come; lest I sob out my love lat your feet.

In the meantime a gentleman who had seen her at her uncle's and had fallen in love with her, finds her out, and in her greatest distress, asks her to become his wife. Though bowed down with poverty and grief, and this offer presenting a wealthy home, she refuses the offer, but her persists, till at length she replies to him from the fullness of an overcharged heart.-

Never, Sir, never, anything rather than