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that all now would be going on pleasantly and
that eventually the father the sons and ourselves
should all have rejoiced in the day that brought
us into connexion. This is all vision — The
sad reality remains that the whole work
seemed still to be done — done too without
any favourable auspices as we had reason
to fear from the quarter from which assistance
must be sought or in any case resistance be
deprecated — My sons were weary and what
is worse disheartened — The under teachers were
frequent in their complaints — All were anxious
to ascertain the probable duration of the termne
where the soil was thus intractable under culture,
and the letter (No 2) which Mr Place in his reply (No 3)
treats with so little ceremony was the result. What are
that gentleman's reasons for concluding that his boys
have made no improvement under our care, as he
refers to no authority we do not presume to guess.
Suffice it to say that if our judgment has the weight
of a feather he is widely wrong and that we hope to
preserve documents to prove as much. They are far indeed
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