"It is surely not the fate to which you invited me in the _brighter_
days. But you must remember that you did not invite me to a great
hero's home but to that of a plain farmer. I have shared all your
triumphs, been the only beneficiary of them, now I am claiming the
privilege for the first time of being all to you, since these
pleasures have passed for me.
"My plans are these, subject to your approval. I think I shall be
able to procure funds enough to enable me to put the two eldest to
school. I shall go to Florida if possible and from thence go over
to Bermuda or Nassau, from thence to England, unless a good school
offers elsewhere, and put them to the best school I can find, and
then with the two youngest join you in Texas--and that is the
prospect which bears me up, to be once more with you if need be--but
God loves those who obey Him and I know there is a future for you.
"Here they are all your friends and have the most unbounded
confidence in you. Mr. Burt and his wife have urged me to live with
them--offered to take the chances of the Yankees with us--begged to
have little Maggie--done everything in fact that relatives could do.
I shall never forget all their generous devotion to you.
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