Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 287

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hard when we long & long to have every thing so dark - it must be for some [indecipherable] purpose - so we must trust with Faith to our Father  who has been, & will continue to be great to us to the end, if we try & try to serve Him -

George Eynton came to London to see his arctic nephew - one of the Caledor Eyntons, & then he came here for an hour or two just to see us - poor man - he has never used the dining room since she died in that room, & he only sits at one end of his drawing room - & dines in his own study  - but he said he thought he must leave the drawing room & sit in his sitting room upstairs.  I think I shall write & beg him to leave the room & to sit in the drawing room at the rear - it is useless putting it off - & now while his misery is greatest it is best

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