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I did not expect to be able to send the costume for about 12 mths, you stating that you already has one. That helped me to decide on the small gift in Salisbury. I really intended to send the costume along for Xmas twelve months but I shall obey your wishes, Cousin unless you would forgive me. You are always forgiving me for some outrage against your gentle nature, & let me send it along for next Christmas but at any rate I shall ask you again months later when you have had time to try & forget some of my unmannerly thoughtless & selfish acts.
Cousin, I did not expect to compromise yourself & promise me anything in connection with our future relations. You say that we are too much at varience on ideas of things that matter. It would never do for anyone two persons to be exactly the same. I know that you live in a land of poetry & literature. That you would feel happier with a man of kindred tastes. But you also know well that those people do not get the best out of life. They are irrate, nervy, subject to all vagrant fancies & whims. Two such people together would find life a torment. Each would battle along their own way, a daily skirmishes & petty quarrels. There would be no one at Home someone patient & loving, attentive to every whim & fancy ready to give the comfort & attention which so many poor women miss. When I think of you married to a man who neglected you, a drunkard or profligrate even in the