For a long while I could read no letter.

But now I have read yours more than once, and it is carefully preserved.

You had been with us in our happiness so near the time when it left me--you and your husband are peculiarly bound up with the latest memories.
"You must have had a mournful summer.

But Mr.Trollope's thorough recovery from his severe attack is a fresh proof of his constitutional strength.

We cannot properly count age by years.