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I am glad that you read to me on
Sunday afternoon and that you went
over and spent that quiet hour with
my dear sister at dusk Sunday evening.
You will find Laura always a verily
companionable friend. Her thoughts
and aspirations are pure and noble;
I [underlined: know] , because I have planted, tended
and watered the garden of her innermost
life, for these many years and I glory
in its beauty, as though she were my
very own child, and I were responsible
for her. My little Natalie is
growing daily under my hand, as I get
a wedge in gradually here and there
in her poor too frivolous mind. Her
Mother I find, too, is much in need
of teaching on many points, and I spend
hours often of an evening discussing
the rights and wrongs of many serious
problems. This sounds conceited and
egotistical, for me to talk in this
way, but Darling I always tell
[underlined: you the truth] and I find every where