Robert has found a hole I can creep through to the very shore, without walking many yards, and there I can sit on a bench and get strength, if so it pleases God.
Have I not sent you a full account of us?
Now if you would return me a cent.

per cent .-- _soll und haben_.

I want so much to know all about you--how you feel, dearest friend, and how you are.

Do write and tell me of yourself.

May God bless you ever and ever! Your affectionate and grateful BA.
* * * * * _To Madame Braun_ 2 Rue do Perry, Le Havre, Maison Versigny: August 10 [1858].
My dearest Madame Braun,--If you have not heard from me before, it has not been that I have not thought of you anxiously and tenderly, but I had the idea that so many must be thinking of you, and saying to you with sad faces 'they were sorry,' that I kept away, not to be the one too many.