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for alas! There are thousands of Aching hearts, like mine in this poor world, and broken as mine is. I trust I may still be enabled to soothe and console some of them. I forget if I ever told you, in my letters that my poor, dear brother had left five orphans. The eldest a sweet, loving accomplished, beautiful girl, just 19 years of age had a situation as governess in Germany. She was beginning to be useful to her widowed mother, whose dearest hope and consolation she was. It had been a hard struggle to part with this beloved child, but we all felt it was necessary. The dear girl suffered much at first, from the home sickness, peculiar to the Swiss, but she had got over it, and was beginning
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