The Second Epoch

Blackwater Park, Hampshire.

June 11th, 1850

.⁠—Six months to look back on⁠—six long, lonely months since Laura and I last saw each other!

How many days have I still to wait? Only one! Tomorrow, the twelfth, the travellers return to England. I can hardly realise my own happiness⁠—I can hardly believe that the next four-and-twenty hours will complete the last day of separation between Laura and me.

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