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looking like a demon dragged? through a mud puddle & pretending she had found out that David had taken he letter, but on facing her down to & making her own up? [..] that she had found no such thing nor a shadow of it but pshaw! She's too contem[....] to notice. Town meeting day- the [.....] are victorious electing their entire ticket-I hope Cinda is not riding in the storm too.
Wednesday 6.th A very sunny forenoon & drizzly afternoon.I am very busy sewing.
Thursday 7.th About noon Edward fetched me a letter from Cinda, it was so unexpected that I could not imagine who it was from, but is none the less welcome, in it was a pa(t)tern for an [..]silk hood for which I feel very grateful, not so much for the value of the pa()ttern,but the thought that I was remembered & my gratification thought of when far separated, indeed this trifling thing afforded me more pleasure than a solicited favor of the amount of its [...]"What a strange compound is the human heart, How slig?ht a c[....e] can bliss or woe impart,