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Our correspondence must cease I must tell him that - It was

dreadfully hard to think it, but I knew it must cease I could

not receive letters from Christian in Switzerland, and

certainly I could not write thee of my

father and ; we ers

clustered round the path of one if not both, know that clouds

and uncertainties hung over all our future, and we must not

write And I must tell Mr Thorold so It was very hard; for I

did not flatteraway of

our difficulties by and by, even if the storm of the war

should roll over and leave Christian to encounter them with

me I did not hope that explanations and a little persuasion

would induce my mother and my father to look favourably on a

Northern suitor for their daughter's hand My father? - he

possibly ive up his pleasure for the sake of my

happiness; with my mother I saw no such possibility It was

useless to hope they would let me write to an officer in the

Union army If any chance at all for es not yet accomplished, or in Mr

Thorold's own personal power of reco himself; rather