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that we almost dreaded
the result, in her weak
nervous condition. She told
us how she felt when she
[bade?] you good bye. & how she had wondered
like Mrs Browning in her "Por-
tugese Sonnets" what her
[?] had but so recently
heard the footsteps of yours!
Thursday Morning-
Mother has passed another
night of great suffering, &
feels very week this morn-
ing. We are anxious & troubled
about her, & yet she had
lived through so many severe
attacks, we can but hope
she will rally once more.
I think it was you who
kindly sent me a German
paper some weeks since
containing articles on Mrs.
Staunton's statement of the
German woman working
with the cow. She probably