A BUNDLE OF LETTERS.
I.
From Miss Miranda Hope, in Paris, to Mrs. Abraham C. Hope, at Bangor, Maine.
September 5th, 1879.
My Dear Mother—
I have kept you posted as far as Tuesday week last, and, although my letter will not have reached you yet, I will begin another, before my news accumulates too much. I am glad you show my letters round in the family, for I like them all to know what I am doing, and I can't write to every one, though I try to answer all reasonable expectations. But there are a great many unreasonable ones, as I suppose you know—not yours, dear mother, for I am bound to say that you never required of me more than was natural. You see you are reaping
