@@@@great joy of receiving news of you. Also your blessing,
@@@@which has already done me good. I wish you to
@@@@get this letter quickly, so I will not make it long.
@@@@
@@@@"I am forbidden to give you any news, so I will
@@@@only say that Rose and I are well. That I love you
@@@@and think of you all the time, and look forward to
@@@@being always with you in God's good time."

She hesitated a moment as to how she would sign
herself, and then she wrote:

@@@@"Your own
@@@@@@@@"Mary."

She looked over the letter, wondering if she could
say any more, and then a sudden inspiration came
to her. She added a postscript:

@@@@"I am spending the money you left with me. It is
@@@@a great comfort."

This was not strictly true, but she made up her
mind that it should become true before the day was
out.

Far longer did she take over her letter to the German
doctor -- indeed, she made three drafts of it,
being so pitifully anxious to say just the right thing,
neither too much nor too little, which might favourably
incline him to his prisoner patient.

All the time she was writing this second letter she
felt as if the Censors were standing by her, frowning,
picking out a sentence here, a sentence there. She
would have liked to say something of the time she
had spent at Weimar, but she dared not do so; per-

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