Chapter LXXXVI: Letter LXXXVI

Dearest: To-day Arthur came and brought me your message: I have at my heart your "profoundly grateful remembrances." Somewhere else unanswered lies your prayer for God to bless me. To answer that, dearest, is not in His hands but in yours. And the form of your message tells me it will not be,--not for this body and spirit that have been bound together so long in truth to you.

I set down for you here--if you should ever, for love's sake, send and make claim for any message back from me--a profoundly grateful remembrance; and so much more, so much more that has never failed.

Most dear, most beloved, you were to me and are. Now I can no longer hold together: but it is my body, not my love that has failed.

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[Transcriber's Notes:

--Though this book was published anonymously, it was later revealed to be by Laurence Housman.

--In Letter XLIII "roughtly" was corrected to "roughly"

--In Letter XXXVI "sort" was corrected to "short"

--In Letter LXX, "elder's" was corrected to "elders'"

--In Letter LXXVIII "unforgetable" was corrected to "unforgettable"]

End of Project Gutenberg's An Englishwoman's Love-Letters, by Anonymous