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could be safely left to look after Hatton mill and to buy for it all the
cotton he could lay his hands on. He had not the time to visit his
mother, but he wrote her a few words of explanation and as he knew
Jane's parlors were full of women, he sent her the following note:
MY DEARLY LOVED WIFE,
Instant and important business takes me at a moment's notice to
London. I have no time to come and see you, and solace my heart
with a parting glance of your beauty, to hear your whispered
good-bye, or taste the living sweetness of your kiss, but you will
be constantly present with me. Waking, I shall be loving and
thinking of you; sleeping I shall be dreaming of you. Dearest of
all sweet, fair women, do not forget me. Let me throb with your
heart and live in your constant memory. I will write you every day,
and you will make all my work easy and all my hours happy if you
send me a few kind words to the Charing Cross Hotel. I do not
think I shall be more than three or four days absent, but however
short or long the time may be, I am beyond all words,
Your devoted husband,
JOHN HATTON.
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