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friendship from men – –
And yet what days ever seem
again like them, but with shortest
sunlight glad & precious with
all fair & perfect probibilities
of life to come, golden with the
day-dawn of the shortest dream
that ever comes to womens heart! -
The joys of sense & soul then
meet & mingle in one Rash of
joy & give to earth the loneliness
of the paradise her [indecipherable] is lost!
he had a singularly sweet &
gentle disposition – & as I
remember the loving face &
tender companionship
wh. can never be a real
living joy to me again.
I have lost the most faithful