uture. Yes, Molly, smile if you
will at my folly, but I go from the mountains with a deep heart-sorrow.
I took kindly to this existence, which to you seems so sordid and mean.
Here, at least, I have been contented. The "thistle-seed," as you call
me, sent abroad its roots right lovingly into this barren soil, and
gained an unwonted strength in what seemed to you such unfavorable
surroundings. You would hardly recognize the feeble and half-dying
invalid, who drooped languidly out of sight as night shut down between
your straining gaze and the good ship Manilla as she wafted her far
away from her Atlantic home, in the person of your _now_ perfectly
healthy sister.

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