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but it is always hard to bear. 

Emma Swan has been poorly all winter - does not suffer pain but is confined to a wheel chair and has to be helped when she steps from bed to chair - her eyes trouble her too so that she can read but little & has had to give up all fancy work & sewing so that she is deprived of almost every sort of amusement & that makes her despondent as anyone would be. She has a nurse and the Dr calls occasionally but there seems very little he can do as he says the trouble is caused by hardening of the arteries.

I mustn't forget to tell you that the little bag I sent you was Nell's - & I thought on that account you might like it. Doris wrote me a nice letter after I sent her Nell's opera glasses & in the letter told me the story of the capture of the Mallard Duck 
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