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SEPTEMBER 15, 18--

Just threeover what

I wrote on Guy's wedding day, I find that in one respect at least I was

unjust to the little creature who is now my sister and calls me Miss

Frances Not by a word or look has she shown the least inclination to

assume the position of mistress of the house, nor does she seem to think

me at all in the way; but that she considers me quite an antediluvian I

a which happened in 1820, she

asked if I remembered it! And I only three years older than Guy! But

then she once called hiood joke that on their wedding tour she was --not sixteen even; but with those childish blue eyes,

and that innocent, pleading kind of expression, she never can be old

She is very beautiful, and I can understand in part Guy's infatuation,

though at ti

It was the ainst her wishes, as I heard from the Porters, ere at the same

hotel, and who have told me what a sensation she created, and how much

attention she received Everybody flattered her, and one evening when