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been as good as gold to me while I was ill, and I feel the 
greatest gratitude to them for their kindly feeling towards me. 
I tried to treat them as well as I could, and they amply repaid 
me, and would, I know, follow me anywhere to-morrow. I 
only wish I could entertain the same confidence in regard to 
my enduring reader! 
The Author. 
