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did not notice him enough, I wish he had called at the house - though I do not know of a place - but I should have taken pleasure in seeing him and making inquiry for him Isaac was quite unwell and they were all out of order and spirits at the store, the water was eighteen inches deep on the store floor at the time of the flood, and thee can guess what a fix they were in - our cellar was all full of water which came in at the drain from the street sewer - our loss here is trifling though it makes a great deal of work, I have been down there this morning trying to get things up out of the mud until my hand trembles so that I find it troublesome in writing, I commenced this yesterday afternoon and just wrote one side down, when I had to lay it aside to entertain Mrs. Tice - Lawrence Tumblety and Miss Malola - cant thee guess by their names - that I had much rather have spent the time communing with thee. Mrs King has had a sad winter, stayed most of the time at the City hospital, now she is at our Josephs, went and asked to stay the night, and was taken ill with one of her severe turns of Asthma. Mary Jane was here yesterday, said she was better, though could not sit up yet, I suppose I must guard against [censuring?] her - if she does refuse to take our advice and suffers in consequence. I have not [illegible] her enough yet to invite her to come and domicile with us, When thee comes I will tell thee all about how we have humbled Lewis and Sarah, and Dr Davis too, by being outspoken, I have accomplished considerable - and not only feel justified but rejoiced. Lewis is the strangest man I ever knew, he came here to have a talk with us, But it is too long a story, do come for I want to tell it to thee, he said somebody had been very mischief making and he thought thee was one, but we implicated no one
I understand their meetings are given up, there is quite a take to that, which I think was the cause of Lewis visit here, the only reason why I did not make Dr Newtons successor's acquaintance, was because Sarah was nearly always there, and did not wish unnecessarily to meet her