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BREAKING TIES
School duties are through for the day, and I have from now until teatime to employ in any manner I choose, and unless some unforeseen
event occurs, I shall probably spend it in writing my last “will and testament” to you, before your departure to an unknown land..
As I read your account of your trip to New York and found that .
proved to be, from beginning to end, a perfect drawback to all of your
plans, I was not a little out of humor with myself, but you seemed to
anticipate all of my regret and put me into good humor again by your
conclusion “All things will come right in the end.”—and so they will,
Niles. . . Mary said you had reason to think the vessel you would like to
have gone in was wrecked, and the thought of the danger you might
have been in is enough to make me glad enough now that I was the
means of detaining you.
And I shrink from the idea now of your going there. If . thought it was
to benefit you in anyway, you know . would not hesitate a moment in
saying “go,” however much more pleasant it might be for you to be
nearer to us.. . but . have misgivings which I cannot do away with.. .
Perhaps before this time you have decided to take your departure in
some other direction than Texas, but if not, you will, . suppose, go down
soon; are you not going to call and see me? Perhaps if you should, .
should be able in some way to prevent your being ready to take passage,
and thus save you from impending evil—who knows.
A few days later, Cornelia received a letter from Deb Wickes in which
she mentioned that Mrs. Chittenden had given birth to a son, that
_ Euphrasia and Mr. Laughpaugh were to be married and that the sidewalks were progressing very slowly. She reported that Maria Amelia
Tompkins would be teaching at the session-house school across the street
from the Niles house, and she mentioned an evening party at the Mulford
house and an afternoon tea party at the Wickes residence, but not a word
did she have to say about Niles Searls.
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