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had fallen asleep soo and never

waked up Noaked up with rifle shots; but its slave

pen was eton, drilling raw soldiers, in the saddle all day, and

very happy, he wroteto me It ithout leave from my father and mother,

and the leave I knew could not be obtained; it would follow

that the indulgence iven up I knew it must I looked

that necessity in the face A correspondence, such a

correspondence, carried on without their knowing of it, must

be an impossibility for me I intended to tell Christian so,

and stop the letters, before I should go abroad My

difficulties were beco eable I wondered souide or choose ency and with no fault

of ht not

be till life and I should go out together So I was a so weeks of the term;

and yet, very happy, for Christian loved e, elixir of life