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nd cheer

darker grow

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at she had a very attractive addition to her family, in the persons of two bachelor boarders. This served but as a pastime of the moment, and I gave it little further thought, until I was presented to

readers at the detailed description of one they deem too blind to see.

earts, whence

weet fount

e stand by my side in the nearest and dearest relation of life, even that of a husband; his face, his form, his voice, his soul were all t

my sickness in Philadelphia I had been a comparative invalid, devoting much of my time to the restoration of health, and above all the recovery of that sight which was still so dear to me, and so hard to relinquish withou

atment as a means of restoration to sight. While he was deeply imbued with interest in my case, and gave me every care and attention while I remained under his roof, he was unf

wood that qu

just like

iers fo

nd tearful hour, when not only my hear

beautiful flower, in the person of her niece, Josie McMath, who, with her l

y exchanged confidences, telling to each other a m

r mother and had lost every means of support. She earnestly desired to return to me; and as t

of Dr. Baird, where I awaited tidings of Rachel Weaver, and whom I met at Detroit, when we returned to Chicago, where I wa

ewing his own feelings he could arrive at but one conclusion, viz, that I had becom

e proposed to sell, and invest t

ther attempt to recover my sight, which gave me an a

mother's breast, so did my tired soul trustingly repose in the safe haven of his manly love, and cast its anchor there! safe am