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cultivated people who attended them.
She was also greeted everywhere with intense enthusiasm by the colored people, who, whenever they knew of her coming, thronged the railway stations in order to obtain a glimpse of her whom they venerated above all women.
The return to her Mandarin home each succeeding winter was always a source of intense pleasure to this true lover of nature in its brightest and tenderest moods.
Each recurring season was filled with new delights.
In December, 1879, she writes to her son, now married and settled as a minister in Saco, Me.:--
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