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and Uncle Brob suggests such pleasurable possibilities that now he’s looking forward much more than backward. Town is losing many of its horrors for him.
We hope to leave by the middle of next week, when ’Bijah will take possession. Jim expects to be called at any time. It is very, very sad—leaving Our Light; you can imagine it. But what a compensation is waiting for us ashore! I am writing to my surprising brother. He always has had a way of doing perfectly delightful and totally unexpected things!
All our love and best wishes and blessings, you dear old satisfactory person!
Your almost-sister,
Elspeth.
