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every thing was done - Yes the old gentleman
said I am much obliged to them for many things
they are both very good in allowing me to mould
them into all my ways.

He acquainted me that he had married
very late in life, but he had a consolation that it
was never too late to do a good action - I ventured
to ask him how it had occurred?

"Well I became more and more wedded
to my favorite project of peopling my allotment
in the forest, and was induced to make a voyage
across the Atlantic to endeavour if possible to
impress on the minds of my relations and country
men the great benefit that would accrue to themselves
and families to follow me to Canada. It
was during the short interval of my visit into
Wales, when at the house of an old friend and
school fellow - that I felt my heart become
first touched with the finer sensibilities of our
nature, and for the first time in my life I felt
I was born to love, from the first moment I beheld
the daughter of my friend who at that
time held a farm in the neighbourhood. The
object of my lively attachment was but sixteen
- I began to reflect on her extreme youth
her inexperience - the difficulties she would
have to encounter with the stern solitude of a
forest life - the pain her youthful heart would
feel at parting with her affectionate parents
of all things taking into consideration the