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LETTER LXI. From a Young Lady, remonstrating with her...

Richmond, October 18, 1913.
My Dear Nat:

It is with pain that I take up my pen to address words so different from those which I have hitherto been accustomed to address to you, but I feel that between persons who are to share their whole lives in common nothing but unqualified sincerity should exist, and I herefore venture at once to speak my whole mind on a subject of vital importance to us both. I have observed of late a sad change in your habits, language, and associates. Since we were together at Norfolk you appear to have assumed a taste for fast life, neither natural to your own disposition, nor calculated to qualify you for domestic life. Remember, my dear Nat, that our outset in life will be but an humble one, and that economy and perseverance are our main resources if we hope to arrive at competency, the society of young men like Jack Courtney is highly prejudicial to you; they are possessed of more means yourself, and though, perhaps, without the willful intention of so doing, are luring you into a taste for expense which will give you a disrelish for the tranquil simplicity of home. Believe me, dear Nat, that these remarks are made in no spirit of meddling censoriousness, but that they come truly and sincerely from one whose whole hopes of happiness are centered in your well-doing. Think how bitter must be my sorrow to find that a mere life of pleasure should estrange you from me and consider how vexed you would-yourself be if I displayed that negligence of the future which must render all happiness an impossibility Be yourself, my dear Nat, return to the sound and manly pursuits which have hitherto been your chief study, and abandon a class of society which can only unsettle your disposition, and destroy your whole prospects. I feel assured that your native goodness of heart, and the affection you have so often plighted to me, will make you take this remonstrance in good part, and that you will not think ill of one who advises you, not as being older and more experienced than yourself, but as loving you with a sincerity that alone could have prompted this address.

God bless you, dear Nat, and grant that we may both be able to amend our own faults, and bear with each other's.

Yours most affectionately,

Lucy Lacy.

To Mr. Nathaniel Spoor.

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