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Letter 2 June 1859, pages 1-5 (Transcriptions Done!)
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VII
"I too have dreamed" replied Milicent "you are not alone in your disappointment; but is all over. - Good bye W. Forrester." Her attitude as she held out her hand was firm and stately, but her averted eyes gleamed with emotion, and her flushed cheeks were wet with tears. He held her hand a moment in his passionate grasp, but knew not the secret agony against which her indomitable spirit upheld her, and thus they parted, as firmly attached to each other as at any moment of their lives. Time rolled on. Milicent was not of age, and the estate which her father then owned, had been left to him with a promise, that if he had a son, then, should, at the time of his death , his oldest daughter be of the age of 21, she should inherit, but if not so, then the estate belonged to