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 "I love to keep old friendships alive and warm within me, because I expect a renewal of them in the World of Spirits.

"I am a wandering and unconnected thing on the earth. I have made no new friendships, that can compensate me for the loss of the old—and the more I know mankind, the more does it become necessary for me to supply their loss by little images, recollections, and circumstances, of past pleasures.

"I am sensible, that I am surrounded by a multitude of very, worthy people, plain-hearted souls, sincere, and kind.—But they have hitherto eluded my pursuit, and will