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He folded up the note again, with great patience and care, in exactly the same form, and laid it on one side.
"'This come to Mrs. Gummidge,' he said, opening another, "'two or three months ago.'
After looking at it for some moments, he gave it to me, and added, in a low voice, "'Be so good as to read it, sir.'
I read as follows.
oh what will you feel when you see this writing and know it comes from my wicked hand but try try not for my sake but for uncle's goodness try to let your heart soften to me only for a little little time
try pray do to relent towards a miserable girl and write down on a bit of paper whether he is well and what he said about me before you left off ever naming me among yourselves and whether of a night when it is my old time of coming home you ever see him look as if he thought of one he used to love so dear oh my heart is breaking when i think about it
I am kneeling down to you, begging and praying you not to be as hard with me as I deserve, as I well, well know I deserve, but to be so gentle and so good as to write down something of him and to send it to me.
you need not call me little you need not call me by the name i have disgraced but oh listen to my agony and have mercy on me so far as to write me some word of uncle never never to be seen in this world by my eyes again
"'Dear, if your heart is hard towards me, justly hard, I know.
But listen, if it is hard, dear, ask him I have wronged the most, him whose wife I was to have been, before you quite decide against my poor, poor prayer.
If he should be so compassionate as to say that you might write something for me to read,'
i think he would oh i think he would if you would only ask him for he always was so brave and so forgiving tell him then but not else that when i hear the wind blowing at night i feel as if it was passing angrily from seeing him and uncle and was going up to god against me
tell him that if i was to die to-morrow and oh if i was fit i would be so glad to die i would bless him and uncle with my last words and pray for his happy home with my last breath
Some money was enclosed in this letter also.
It was untouched, like the previous sum, and he refolded it in the same way.
Detailed instructions were added relative to the address of a reply, which, although they betrayed the intervention of several hands and made it difficult to arrive at any very probable conclusion in reference to her place of concealment, made it at least not unlikely that she had written from that spot where she was stated to have been seen.
What answer was sent?
I inquired of Mr. Peggedy.
Mrs. Gummidge, he returned, not being a good scholar, sir, Ham kindly drawed it out, and she made a copy on it.