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letter from you, my present state of solicitude would 

 scarce fail to remind me of it.' 



' 6 o'clock, evening. 



' I have been hearing sermon a second time in the 

 factory close. Mr Stewart was in his happiest and 

 most impressive vein, clear, interesting, solemn ; I 

 have rarely, if ever, heard him more effective. My 

 criticism on his last Sabbath's discourse would in no 

 respect apply. Never have I heard better out-of-door 

 discourses. His audience was most attentive, and at 

 several of the more striking passages visibly impressed. 

 The day cleared up beautifully, and except for a few 

 minutes, when a slight shower led to a vast unfurling of 

 umbrellas, we were quite as comfortable as we could 

 have been in any building. There has been much rain 

 of late, and it has been of great use and greatly needed, 

 but scarce any of it fell during the time of Divine service 

 on Sabbath. In his prayer Mr Stewart made appro- 

 priate mention of a goodness that could be at once 

 favourable to exposed congregations and to the con- 

 cerns of the husbandmen. I saw two servants in livery 

 at the tent. They are, I have been told, domestics of 

 Sir Hugh Eraser, a fierce intrusionist, and have been 

 warned to quit his service at the term, for their adher- 

 ence to the Free Church.' 



' Monday morning, 7 o'clock. 



' You have been my inseparable companion, dearest, 

 since we parted. You were with me last night on the 

 ridge of the hill, looking at all I looked at and feeling 

 all I felt. Do you remember the exquisite evening we 

 passed among the pines on the upper slope of the hill 

 above the cultivated ground, where the hill looks down 

 upon the town and bay ? There was a bright red sun- 



