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They all miss you so much. Your mother in a laughing way asked me if I didn't feel ashamed of myself in coming along and breaking into all her arrangements. I told her I suppose I ought to feel very guilty about it. But you know I wanted you so badly and it seemed to me that I must get you in the end anyway. I am so glad it was all settled so soon and you cant imagine how happy and relived I felt after we told your father and mother. Now I have you to think about and work for and it has given a new point and meaning to my life. It is just exactly as I would have it. Before we were engaged I was afraid of every man that looked at you and I don't think you even tried to make me jealous. Well heres Peekskill where I get off. I am going to stop here on my way down to get a sketch of Dunderberg Mountain. I have just gotten back and got about what I wanted although it was very cold sitting out there. It was an awfully hard thing to keep the brushes from freezing and every once and a while I had to scrape them off. Yesterday I went down to Cornwall and took a walk along the railroad tracks beyond the foot of Storm King as I wanted to make a sketch of a subject down there. It was 

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