Pepper makes another delivery, this one bearing a posy of a Chinese chrysanthemum, an everlasting pea blossom, a daily rose and swallow-wort greens. ( My good lady, )
The reply comes with a single spring of red columbine, a stalk of sanfoin, and a single white bellflower attached. There are a lot of ink-blots, and the handwriting is scratchier and more agitated than in Ophelia's previous letters.
Dr Malcolm,
Thy kindness touches me; I have not been well. I should like to meet with the lady Amanda, and yet I do not think my state is [illegible] It is the strangeness of this place; it preys on my mind. I thank you all the same and shall write thee soon when I am better.
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Dr Malcolm,
Thy kindness touches me; I have not been well. I should like to meet with the lady Amanda, and yet I do not think my state is [illegible] It is the strangeness of this place; it preys on my mind. I thank you all the same and shall write thee soon when I am better.
-Ophelia
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