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says there is a clot of blood in her brain and it must take time and rest to absorb it. She ought to lie down and keep very quiet. Imagine Julia in such a predicament!!   Dr Bacon has a church in New York for five weeks at $75.00 a Sunday.—  That is a "help over a hard place". He says it costs him fifty dollars to a week to live now.—   Aunt Emily and I went to Mrs Tyson's tea - oh I must have told you that [[tho?]] - it will never do for me to write so often  I repeat myself.— this is really almost too stupid.—  I must get some one else to finish this letter.

Leilie dear, I hope, before leaving Paris you will be refreshed by one of the McCall meetings with Aunt Sarah and Constance then you will have some thing good to tell us when you get home. — along with the many rejoicing and Thanksgivings! 
Grandma Just asked me for the paper - as I was going to say a word to you. Things here do not seem natural as the Season of Xmas creeps along - but we are doing the best we know how, without your, or Aunt Eliza's Eyes - a many other things. The Drinkers are so very Jolly, how ever, that one cannot stagnate. They are not sociable because we are too far away! The boys are real boys and have other fun, with other boys nearby - and Etta gets too tired. Just fancy, some times a whole week or more passes, without Etta seeing Grandma. She has a large family, & many cares - & we auld folk, must learn to stand by ourselves. Cecilia is here now, and makes our young element.
You must not Expand so Enormously that this old home and these old hearts canit [[cannot]] hold you!—  When you come home. In the mean time oh how you are drinking it in! Your letters today made us feel so near— Tom. back in Paris. comforts Grandma's heart—
She asked me if you were

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really there?
May is well or you would have said so—
Now good night
Yours, comme toujours.
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