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the silk.
Oh, where should I now be, if it had not been for you!’
When her emotion was somewhat calmed, she told him that she had married a highly respectable man, a senator of his native state.
Being on a visit in Friend Hopper's vicinity, she had again and again passed his dwelling, looking wistfully at the windows to catch a sight of him; but when she attempted to enter her courage failed.
‘But I must return home to-morrow,’ said she, ‘and I could not go away without once more seeing and thanking him who saved me from ruin.’
She recalled her little boy, and said to him, ‘Look at that gentleman, and remember him well; for he was the best friend your mother ever had.’
With an earnest invitation to visit her happy home, and a fervent ‘God bless you!’
she bade her benefactor farewell.
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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