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LETTER I. A Declaration of Love.

Charleston, October 15, 1913.
My Dear Miss Mary:

I have so long enjoyed the happiness of being received as a welcome guest at your respected parents' house, that I write with the more confidence on a subject of most serious importance to my welfare.

From constantly meeting with you, and observing the thousand acts of amiability and kindness which adorn your daily life, I have gradually associated my hopes of future happiness with the chance of possessing you as their sharer. Believe me, dear Miss Mary, this is no outbreak, of boyish passion, but the hearty and healthy result of a long and affectionate study of your disposition. It is love, founded on esteem; and I feel persuaded that your knowledge of my own character will lead you to trace my motives to their right source.

May I then implore you to consult your own heart, and should I not have been mistaken in the happy belief that my feelings are in some measure reciprocated, to grant me permission to mention the matter to your parents.

Believe me, dear Miss Mary, Your ever sincere, but at present anxious friend,

Frederick Buchanan.

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