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For the more immediate benefit of yourself & Duke permit me to inform you that Delha has a leave from Virginia - a Mrs. Fomainnick widower of 30 with one beautiful pledge of a faithful husband a noble boy who report says will certainly cause to be vacated, one hearth & several hearts in the good old north sat?. But wife not master no unavailing moments in the somber gloom of repining solitude, take not seriously to heart that which you cannot avert. Tis perhaps the dispensation of [illegible] who knows better how to manage Kirman affairs than either your or I. I offer you both the all consoling & omnipotent spirit of optimism to soothe your souls & nerve them for all trals. Hargrove has [renewed] his visit to Losbos & from what you know you can guess his chances Tis as he anticipated. In your letter to sister (the Dr will not his be seen) I see that you request leave to give you a detail of his visit to Chapel Hill & "the what Lum is driving at" I was at the hill as well as Joane & am sorry to state that he did not gallant a single lady while there. Like you at Exan's wedding I was "among them but not of them." Her who holds the entire devotion of my every thought - word & actions was not