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So here we are for
an indefinite length of time, and here we found both your letters,
which old Anthony, who grows more and more stupid every year, failed
to forward to us in Paris. As Archie leaves everything to me, he
said I must answer the letters, and thank you for your offer to
remove our little girl from the poisonous atmosphere you think
surrounds her, and bring her up morally and spiritually. I do not
know what the atmosphere of Stoneleigh used to be when you lived
here, but I assure you it is very healthy now; not at all poisonous,
or malarious. We have had some of the oldest yews cut down and that
lets in the sunshine and fresh air, too.
"But I am wandering from the object of my letter, which is to say
that we cannot let you have our little Bessie, even with the
prospect of her learning to scour knives and pare potatoes, and
possibly having a few thousands, if she does well. Archie would as
soon part with his eyes as with Bessie; while nothing short of an
assured fortune, and that a large one, would induce me to give her
up.


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