They are DREADFUL . I have been crying ALL THE AFTERNOON . I wish I could FLY to you , but ma will not let me . She is afraid I will catch the measles , but I would rather have the measles A DOZEN TIMES OVER than be sepparated from you all like this . But I have felt , ever since the Judgment Sunday that I MUST OBEY MA BETTER than I used to do . If ANYTHING HAPPENS to Peter and you are let see him BEFORE IT HAPPENS give him MY LOVE and tell him HOW SORRY I AM , and that I hope we will ALL meet in A BETTER WORLD Everything in school is about the same . The master is awful cross by spells . Jimmy Frewen walked home with Nellie Bowan last night from prayer-meeting and HER ONLY FOURTEEN . Do n't you think it horrid BEGINNING SO YOUNG ? YOU AND ME would NEVER do anything like that till we were GROWN UP , would we ? Willy Fraser looks SO LONESOME in school these days . I must stop for ma says I waste FAR TOO MUCH TIME writing letters . Tell Judy ALL THE NEWS for me . `` Your OWN TRUE FRIEND , `` SARA RAY . `` P.S. Oh I DO hope Peter will get better . Ma is going to get me a new brown dress for the winter . `` S. R. '' When evening came we went to our seats under the whispering , sighing fir trees . It was a beautiful night -- clear , windless , frosty . Some one galloped down the road on horseback , lustily singing a comic song . How dared he ?
We felt XXXXX it was an insult to our wretchedness .
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