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tion, and although the sky is often dark with disappointments, 

 no matter, I am used to it. I must go to Europe before I can 

 think of engaging in any business, if it be possible. What 

 I shall do the next summer, I don't know. Notwithstanding 

 my greatly improved health, I am not in working mood more 

 than half the time. But the object I have steadily pursued 

 for 8 years can't be yielded now, I am bound to put it through. 

 Being obliged to look out for funds, I am distracted and hin- 

 dered in my studies so that I have not accomplished half so 

 much this winter as I might have done had I "the rocks," 

 but there's a good time coming, I believe, and I am going on 

 to meet it. — 



