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This you too must do, ere long; meanwhile, be proud of success beyond merit, and rejoice yet more, that fortune showers fresh delights upon you. To shine with adornment, as a female should, to find your words made pictures of bright beauty—from pure love of you [1]—and thus to venture forth, to those who will receive you kindly, through the force of habit and of nature.
October, 1882.
- ↑ This unwise lover is Mr. F. A. W. T. Armstrong of Bristol.
