p.

swindling and 'salting' that
people are afraid to invest --
but I should like to gamble
that way -- for where gold has been
gold is!

I have not had time to read
your little book but shall soon.

You feel as I do about age -- I
am not old at the bade I wont
have it, why do people think so,
if they must as I do, see so -- I hate
my looks absolutely, -- I would
not look in the glass, but for my fear
of my bonnets being awry and I
wish I could believe as a certain olf
woman did that the glasses were not
as they used to be in her day? No I
know I am far wiser in soul, though
weaker in body and understand
human life its terrible shortness, the
awful mystery as no youth, happily, ever
can

yours ever
E D B S

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