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away and therefore your affectionate words are all 

 the more welcome. 



This, however, is the last day of my solitude, as 

 Charlotte and Mytsie ought to arrive in a few hours. 



And now, having given you all my little news, 

 let me pile up my congratulations as high as words 

 can pile them. I heard all about the wedding from 

 many different sources, and there was but one opinion 

 as to the bride. I will not say what it was, but oh, 

 had I been there to see. It is so so good of you to 

 miss us in the middle of it all. But it may have 

 been telepathy, because I was hard at work on my 

 abortive sonnet all that day. 



It is like northern breezes to read your account 

 of all the happy doings you have had on your wedding 

 trip, and it makes me happy to feel that you have 

 made so wise a choice in the greatest event of your 

 life. Long may you live together in the cultivation 

 of domestic bliss, although of course only in the 

 moments snatched from the cultivation of science ! 



February 2. 



Charlotte and Mytsie arrived last night at ten 

 o'clock twelve hours late. They had the roughest 

 voyage which the boat has ever experienced. Poor 

 Char. 1 is literally more dead than alive. But the 

 weather here is beautiful, and I hope she may soon 

 get to rights again. 



With affectionate regards to my mentor, and to 

 yours, I remain, ever the same, 



PHILOSOPHER. 



1 See p. 811, above, 



