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was to buy a pair of vases for Friend Hopper; and proud and pleased she was, when she brought them home and presented them!
He always kept them on the parlor mantel-piece, and often told their history to people who called upon him.
When she had become perfectly calm and settled, he and his wife accompanied her to Pennsylvania, and saw her established among her new friends, who received her in the kindest manner.
A week after his return, he wrote to assure her that his interest in her had not abated.
In the course of the letter, he says: ‘I need not tell thee how anxious I am that thou shouldst conduct so as to be a credit to thyself, and to those who have interested themselves in thy behalf.
I felt keenly at parting with thee, but I was comforted by the reflection that I had left thee with kind friends.
Confide in them upon all occasions, and do nothing without their advice.
Thy future happiness will depend very much upon thyself.
Never suffer thy mind to become excited.
Remember that kind friends were raised up for thee in the midst of all thy sorrows, and that they will always continue to be thy friends, if thou wilt be guided by their counsels.
Thou wert with us so long, that we feel toward thee like one of the family.
All join me in love to thee.’
In her reply, she says: ‘Your letter was to me what a glass of cold water would be when fainting.
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Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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