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you have odd times to devote to reading, don't you now? Don't neglect it! Just remember that you have got to be in every - as you are already in most respects (pardon the plainness of the compliment) the greatest woman in the old North State! It will be pleasant hereafter, as I told you before, to sit round the winter fire-side, and talk rationally; and knowledge & general information is necessary - absolutely necessary just see how peremptorily I can speak!) to enable it to be done. - My heart leaps with joyful anticipation! How happy will we be then! Won't we? "Yes! we will"!
Dear Pattie is gone! When, when shall I see her again? Oh! how I love her! - Recd her note. - Bless her forever! How's John - poor fellow I feel for him!
Will come up Christmas, if you don't come down, as I promised. I keep promises! -- P. S. But you'll come!
You speak of the length of your letters compared with those of others. - Now, Mollie, don't let us measure our letters or our love by anybody else's! Especially the latter! Indeed no body else's would do to measure mine by - I am certain; - & I hope yours is at least half as great if so, it will do very well! --- It's late, and I'm sick, and must stop. I have to work hard - as Cronin is gone to Raleigh - & at night I am nearly finished - no mistake! The bill loaning $10,000 to the Normal has passed the Senate, and will pass the House, I think!
There are at least one million things I wish to say. But it will take a life-time to say 'em, so if you wish to hear them you know the way! - I hope, however, to say some of them next Friday or Saturday week - & will if I live till then - and all's well! - The amount of them all at last is just nothing more than the "little word" you thought of writing in your note. -- Remember me to Lizzie - and Bud & Mary Lewis! Bless them all, how I love them! Good-night! Bless my Mollie, kind Heaven!
Your "friend" - Mack Robbins