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guish on my bed, a father no longer. The spring in 

 which we lost her was peculiarly a dark time ; but it 

 is over ; and Liza still lives, though not with us/ 



' Monday, 3 o'clock. 



'And I have heard from you. I am glad you 

 should have fixed on so interesting a locality, but not 

 at all glad that you should be so little able to avail 

 yourself of its various points of interest. But you will, 

 I trust, get stronger, and that by the time I join you 

 you will be able to accompany me in my walks. You 

 must take especial care and not over-exert yourself, nor 

 walk much in the sun. I am pretty sure that by put- 

 ting yourself in what boxers and pedestrians call a 

 course of training, extending your walks tit by 'bit as 

 you felt your strength increase, never exhausting your- 

 self, never urging exertion past the point at which 

 fatigue is merely an agreeable languor, you could be 

 brought into condition, and made strong enough to 

 travel ten miles per day. My mother, never a strong 

 woman, has travelled at your age thirty miles on a 

 stretch. Only think of all you could do, could you 

 but travel thirty miles ! I shall, however, be well con- 

 tent if, at our meeting, I find you able to accomplish 

 five. Five would bring us to Loch Lomond together, 

 and take within our range a few of the striking points 

 of Loch Long. 



f And so Harriet and Bill enjoyed their voyage, 

 and Harriet has become a shell and fossil collector. 

 Tell her papa trusts she is to have a great many pretty 

 things to show him when he comes to Arrochar, and 

 that she is to be so good a girl as not to cry when 

 nurse is bathing her. Tell her, also, that I send her a 

 kiss for mamma, and that I send mamma a kiss for her, 



