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sleep in the fields; my health is consequently improved. The child, informs me, is well. I long to be with her.
Write to me immediately—were I only to think of myself, I could wish you to return to me, poor, with the simplicity of character, part of which you seem lately to have lost, that first attached to you.
Yours most affectionately
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I have been subscribing other letters—so I mechanically did the same to yours.
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