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HOPES AND PROSPECTS. 
Meanwhile we talked encouragingly of spring hopes 
and summer prospects, and managed sometimes to force 
an occasion for mirth out of the very discomforts of our 
unyielding winter life. 
This may explain the tone of my diary. 
RETURNING DAY. 
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