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James B. Weaver letters to Clara Vinson, 1856-1858

1858-03-24 Page 03

answer. Well I have just as much as I can stand under, and if any thing unpleasant in its character results from this corrispondence, you must shoulder your share of it. 
Clara, I have heard that you should have threatened to jilt me. I heard that you said, that you intended to tell me that your mind had changed, for the purpose of drawing me on, and that when you had my wool thoroughly tangled, you intended to come up missing. Can this be so? are you trifling with my feelings in this manner? Well, it would be hard for me to believe it, I confess, but such things sound very hard. Now Clara, I did not intend in the first place that this corrispondence should be protracted to any great length. You told me that you had changed "some". Well now you have either changed entirely, or you have not changed at all, one or the other. Now Clara, I am not mad, but I speak earnestly. This thing of alternating for ever between hope & despair is altogether to poignant & harrassing for me to stand. I really think that I am as good as you are & no better. You have always occupied the best part of my heart; and still do, but this thing must be ended. I am very unwell, write very soon for I am introuble. 
God bless you. 
Yours as ever, 
J. B. Weaver.

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answer. Well I have just as much as I can stand under, and if any thing unpleasant in its character results from this corrispondence, you must shoulder your share of it. Clara, I have heard that you should have threatened to jilt me. I heard that you said, that you intended to tell me that your mind had changed, for the purpose of drawing me on, and that when you had my wool thoroughly tangled, you intended to come up missing. Can this be so? are you trifling with my feelings in this manner? Well, it would be hard for me to believe it, I confess, but such things sound very hard. Now Clara, I did not intend in the first place that this corrispondence should be protracted to any great length. You told me that you had changed "some". Well now you have either changed entirely, or you have not changed at all, one or the other. Now Clara, I am not mad, but I speak earnestly. This thing of alternating for ever between hope & despair is altogether to poignant & harrassing for me to stand. I really think that I am as good as you are & no better. You have always occupied the best part of my heart; and still do, but this thing must be ended. I am very unwell, write very soon for I am introuble. God bless you. Yours as ever, J. B. Weaver.