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SrockHoim, 22d December, 1828.
I steal away from my Christmas-boxes and all bustle, in
order to write to you a few lines. If I had not had so
much to paint at daylight and also at candle-light, I would
have written a great deal.
August, the dear boy, came home on ‘the 11th instant,,
full ae life, in good health and high spirits. His examina-
tion testimonials are the best that have been given during
the last twenty years for a civil service examination. He
got two “cum laude,” and two “laudatur.” This examina-
tion has really created quite a sensation. I have never
seen our father so touched and overjoyed; he pressed Au-
gust to his heart, and wept for joy. One ought to acknowl-
edge that it is very praiseworthy in a youth, just turned
eighteen, to have passed the grades, and, after three months’
study, to deserve such testimonials. Agatha, who, with our
mother, has been to the opera to see “ La Dame Blanche,”
was the whole evening very much enchanted with the
White Lady and the studious cornet. . August is tall, thin,
very plain, but looks very nice nevertheless.
God bless you, and consequently alsu me, with a happy
and good New Year!
SrockHomm, 18th February, 1829.
This time I shall not send you any formal letter. For a
while I have been too lazy to write. Neither has any thing
happened worth writing about. See here, however, what
is most remarkable. Yesterday evening, after my mother
and sisters had gone to pay some visits, I went up-stairs to
our father, who sat reading his newspapers at the tea-table.
He asked me whether I wanted some tea. I answered
with a gentle “ No, thank you.” I then asked him if he
wished me to read the newspapers to him. He answered
with a gentle “No,” but said that he had something for me
to read, and went into the next room and returned with a
letter, which he gave me; the handwriting was unknown
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