18/58 But I must go. This is a different trial from any I have ever had. I have had that of leaving kindred, but now I have that of leaving those whom I love from affinity. If I wished to live a life the most gratifying to me, and in agreeable company, I certainly would remain here. Here are refining amusements, cultivated persons--and one whom I have not spoken of, one who is too much to me to speak of, one who would leave all for me. |