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Dear Mr Clenna you will be glad to

hear frolad to hear fro about you is as you have been accusto--unless it should be ether and very seldoe, and I miss so much

When ere in Switzerland, which appears to have been years ago,

though it was only weeks, IMrs Goas on a mountain

excursion like ourselves She told e, by et you She was quite confiding with me, and I loved her

alular in that;

who could help loving so beautiful and winning a creature! I could not

wonder at any one loving her

No indeed It will not make you uneasy on Mrs Gowan's account, I hope--for I

remember that you said you had the interest of a true friend in her--if

I tell you that I wish she could have married some one better suited to

her Mr Gowan seems fond of her, and of course she is very fond of hih--I don'tI could not keep it out of e that would be, and how I must alter to become like

her!) I should feel that I was rather lonely and lost, for the want of

soht she felt