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216 The Floral King.
grace has given me my livelihood in a strange
place, sed nihil ab omni parte beatum.
“When I now contemplate how incessant work,
during many years, has made me emaciated, grey,
and bent my back, I find full well how time speeds,
and that I never more shall see my several dear
relatives, which most of all touches me at heart;
when my dear brothers and sisters are allowed to see
each other as often as they please, you are allowed
to comfort each other in adversity, and rejoice at
each other’s fortune in prosperity. I have no con-
fidential friend, where all my confidence is expelled,
he who compliments in prosperity, helps to push the
wheel of misfortune down the hill in adversity. You
will once, when tired of the world, be gathered to
your forefathers, and rest your bones in your ances-
tral grave, where mine will never be allowed to come.
You are allowed to live and dwell in the homes of
your birth, and to live with a people brought up in
simple honesty itself; but I must always be on my
guard against artfulness and schemes. I never
forget your innocent Christmas games, but am daily
reminded of the wiles of the deceitful world.
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