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the pleasure of meeting Mrs Charles Grant – she was in one
of her nervous excited humors - saying what an attack of nervous
-ness she had had the last few days – D^r Sulivan [sic] in attendance &c
this evening she sent to ask me to go to church with her after
tea but I was too tired - for after Church Amanda M^rW.
the boys & myself had been overhauling the new part of the
City. Everybody must have known that we were country
folks. The City is really rapidly building up. If I could sell my
lands on the Island & purchase a house here, the hire of the negros [sic]
would maintain us beautifully. William should come too - he
would soon find something to do. Is it not a delightful plan
Let us think of it! - I feel such a kind of horror of St. Simon's.
When we got back I found dear William & John Cunningham
here, the former regretted very much he had not gone to walk
with us - I felt even more sorry I think than he was, & had
I thought of the walk before leaving for Church I would have
sent Middleton for him. M^r C. says his wife is not so well
today -- will you believe it that woman has had the conscience
to miscarry. The Doctors say if she does again she will
die right away, & if she could have kept it she would have
recovered, this is what Sarah told me this evening. This was
the reason she was so ill some time ago. Dear Sarah Bourke is just
as kind to me as tho' she was my own child, so gentle - so thoughtful,
poor child she has much to worry her at this time & yet any one
to see her would not suspect anything. Poor B. has been in a frolic
& will carry it on. I have not set eyes on him since I came, he stays
out all day, at night he staggers home & is assisted up to his room.
he is off again as soon as he gets up in the morning -- I am grieved for Sarah
I would leave the house & go either to the Cunninghams / who have press'd
me to divide my time with them - or to stay at the house Aman-
-da stops at - but I fear it will not only be talked of - but that