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you can during the cold winter which is approach- 

 ing. But at your age, I did not mind the cold. Like 

 Frank in the Reading book, I used to wish that 

 Winter might last all the year. 



Next to your own dear parents, you are with the 

 friends who love you most in the world, and will try 

 to gratify every wish of your heart. Do not make 

 yourself unhappy aoout your separation from your 

 mother. Lynch has become an excellent nurse, 

 and Aunt Maria and I, will not let mother want 

 for any thing. 



You must try to think that this temporary separ- 

 ation, will be "best for your mother and yourself. 

 What we cannot alter we should learn too, to bear 

 patiently. Trust in the Wise Disposer of Events, 

 who does nothing in vain, and sends even visita- 

 tions and sorrows to work out His own good pur- 

 poses. 



The last time your mother went to Haskell's, she 

 improved, arid I shall coax her to pay another visit 

 to Totness during the winter. * * 



Love and thanks to Victor, and to all the Audu- 

 bon family for their great kindness to you and to 

 us during our visit. * 



Wherever the father and daughter journeyed, the 

 classical form and face of his daughter, Julia, was 

 the subject of comment. The attention she attracted 

 was no doubt gratifying to his fatherly pride; yet 

 it seems to have aroused a fear in his heart, that the 

 adulation bestowed upon unusual personal beauty 

 might be injurious to the spiritual development of 

 his child. Julia, perhaps accustomed to admiration 

 from childhood, seemed to be scarcely conscious of it. 

 She was frequently requested to sit for her likeness, 



