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doubted whether she was as handsome as I was when he first saw me (thirty or more years ago). His wife said to me in those days: ‘Jacob thinks thee's the only good-looking woman in these parts.’
She was herself a handsome woman and a very sweet one.
I wish I had known I was so good-looking.”
Of the writing of letters there was no end. Correspondence was rather a burden than a delight to her; yet, when all the “duty letters” were written, she loved to take a fresh sheet and frolic with some one of her absent children.
Laura, being the furthest removed, received perhaps more than her share of these letters; yet, as will appear from them, she never had enough.
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