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powers enable them to form it in the right mould.
Mrs Sedgewick was, I believe, one of her earliest
friends.

Time and circumstances are working changes here;
our mercantile world is in great confusion, occasioned
by the failure of some of the prominent
houses; all attributed to the ongoing obstinacy of
your friend the hermit ex president, for you know
they say, he was a great favorite with the ladies,
and of course I suppose that you admire his
friendly successor, upon the principle of "love me love
my dog" or rather as you know, he wants against
to cut the Gordian knot and then to tye it once
more in an indissoluble cord chain which the Lady of
his affections is to hold till the last link is broken;
so that you must espouse his cause, attend his
public and private levees and then invite us to your
wedding. My flame, by the bye, is not to be forgotten, altho'
I don't take any more of those twilight walks in
order as you said to evade your presence, still I am as
devoted as ever and hope to be so 'till death us do part.
I feel much for her as she has now for some time been
suffering from a severe cold, which you are depreses the
spirits as well as the health. She is about to leave Mrs
Smiths. Mrs E. M. has a most interesting little girl, a remarkably
pretty [babe??bale??], but the affliction of her recent loss seems
to be opened afresh by any occurrence which revives the recollection
of her little darlyng, and it seems as tho'