It gives me the greatest pleasure I can have in this world when I hear that you are getting along so well -- except I could hear one other thing of you, -- and that would be a pleasure beyond anything in this world.

Let us know everything you want -- and we will try to send it to you, and if we can't we will all want it together.

-- We are all well -- Winifred mourns for you all the while, in spite of trying not to do it.
What the rest of us do is no matter.

I shall send a box, if I can, before New Year, with some cakes and apples -- write us before that, in time, all you want.
Your mother." This double letter, being duly put in the post according to Mr.Landholm's promise, in the course of time and the post came safe to the Shagarack post-office; from whence it was drawn one evening by its owner, and carried to a little upper room where Rufus sat, or rather stood, at his books.

There was not a great deal there beside Rufus and the books; a little iron stove looked as if it disdained to make anybody comfortable, and hinted that much persuasion was not tried with it; a bed was in one corner, and a deal table in the middle of the floor, at which Winthrop sat down and read his letters.
He was longer over them than was necessary to read them, by a good deal.