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viii This you too must do, ere long; meanwhile, be proud of success beyond merit, and rejoice yet more, that fortune showers fresh delights upon you. To shine with adornment, as a female should, to find your words made pictures of bright beauty—from pure love of you —and thus to venture forth, to those who will receive you kindly, through the force of habit and of nature. October, 1882.