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seem to know anything about it. Wood is to find his bank book to see whether the notes were all paid or not. I am in great anxiety about it and am greatly afraid we shall not have as much coming as we expected. I was glad to get back on the hill for the heat was intense. I made the cherry bounce 6 bottles for each with three others only partly filled. We had rain this afternoon and a cool wave is announced to be here tomorrow. I am reading Mrs. Carlyles letters. To me they are most pathetic and interesting. I read in my journal of 1876 this afternoon and found many things of great interest. Many events which seem commonplace today are extremely interesting after a lapse of a few years. Calvert came up on the Powell. He gave me a brief account of his interview with Joe who was at his house last night. May has also had a talk with him at his request. I feel sorry for him although I feel he has rashly put himself in a humiliating position and at the same time much charity is due a lonely and discontented man as he is. The troubles of life take infinite shapes.

Saturday August 23. 1884. Cooler today but the same smoky atmosphere. I have staid quietly at home a part of the time trying to unravel the tangle of the notes which Turck produces and I think I have the theory of it now accounting for all but the last note of $200. Calvert and I sat on the front porch during the forenoon and talked and smoked. This afternoon I read Mrs. Carlyles letters and worked over the Turck affair getting myself into a more settled state of mind regarding it. My father is unable to transact any business as all such matters fatigue him. When I look ahead I feel anxious and alarmed and so, as far as possible endow to look ahead. How much of the trouble of life comes from our anxieties about the mean and sordid details of our material existence, how to be fed, clothed and to pay our taxes. For the great disasters of death and the sadness of growing old there seem to be no remedy but it does seem as though we might so order our lives as not to have the added trouble which comes from unwise plans of living.- I had a letter from Bonyer today enclosing one from Booth to him in which he seems to have arranged to secure him for his loan. He too begins his life with this same unnecessary clog of putting himself under obligation to some one.

Sunday 24" The wind has been from the north today with a rich, brilliant atmosphere and a delightful temperature. Calvert and I walked out over the Common beyond the cemetery and came back through it. The morning glories had entirely covered Gussies grave with a thick rich mass of vines and flowers. My mothers and Maurices the same although not so thickly. The nasturtiums on Gertrudes grave were in bloom but I think next year I will put morning-glories on all of them as being simple and more satisfactory. I went down to John McEntees after dinner. He and Julia were there Nannie having gone up to Clermont. After tea they came up here. Frank Anderson and Harry Crispell were here but left early. Presently Fred Norton and Annie came having driven down from High Falls. They spent the evening and went home with John & Julia who goes to Montreal tomorrow.

Monday 25" The Freeman tonight says there was frost in many places among the mountains last night. Today has been like an October day. Park and I took a walk after breakfast out over the hills north through the piece of woods near the Roatina where dear Gertrude and I went for ferns the last time we gathered any. What a sad and homesick feeling came over me as I lingered about that spot and thought of her. The summer is about gone and life seems growing more and more sad and sober. I was thinking today how many friends I used to have to whom I wrote. Now I have no correspondents and it is from no neglect on my part for I love to write to my friends, but one by one they have become absorbed in their own affairs or business or griefs and left me. We came home by 

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