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James B. Weaver letters to Clara Vinson, 1856-1858
1858-04-22 Page 02
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with their fragrance. You ask the question, "will the time ever come when we shall be estranged from each other?" Never, no never. I know that I love you with a "deep & ever abiding" love. My affections have surely been tried. I Certainly do know, that if I had of been deceived, time, long ere this, would have undeceived me. But how has it been with me? Why instead of my thinking less of you as time passed away, I loved you more ardently every day that I lived. Neither has the ardor of my affections abated in the least since I found out the blessed truth that my feelings were reciprocated; but on the contrary, (And I declare it upon my honor as a christian man) I think incalculably more of you to day than I ever did since I have known you. Last evening, before meeting, I took a walk, and I thought how pleasant it
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with their fragrance. You ask the question, "will the time ever come when we shall be estranged from each other?" Never, no never. I know that I love you with a "deep & ever abiding" love. My affections have surely been tried. I Certainly do know, that if I had of been deceived, time, long ere this, would have undeceived me. But how has it been with me? Why instead of my thinking less of you as time passed away, I loved you more ardently every day that I lived. Neither has the ardor of my affections abated in the least since I found out the blessed truth that my feelings were reciprocated; but on the contrary, (And I declare it upon my honor as a christian man) I think incalculably more of you to day than I ever did since I have known you. Last evening, before meeting, I took a walk, and I thought how pleasant it
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