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after leaving your city without accident
or much inconvenience. Under all
the circumstances we [fared?], if not
sumptuously, at least passably well.
Tho' it was [reserved?] for a woman of my
own State to almost refuse [me?] the
poor boon of spending the night in a
shuck house. However after assuring her
of my respectability before the war – you
know it has made so many vagabonds
I was afraid to venture upon my present
standing - & refering her to several gen-
telmen of her District whom I knew
she reluctantly consented for me to be in
in the grove until night & then to seek
the quarters above designated. Tho' I
remained there nearly an entire day
she did not come near me or in any
other way manifest the slightest
interest in my comfort or [?]
Of course such unexpected kindness
