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My dear, the only thing I'm not willing
to do is abandon my child
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to fits of depression and religious mania
in a small upstairs room!
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If she can find love and a rich,
new life in Hawaii,
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It's a damn sight
better than she's doing here in Walpole,
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wasting away over a sailor
who's long since forgotten her.
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Abigail...
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Shouldn't we give
the young man a chance?
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If she doesn't like him,
she can send him away.
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I promise.
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Abner! A letter! A letter!
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"Dear Brother Hale,
as a result of careful inquiries,
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"the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions
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"is happy in the will of God to announce
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"that you have been chosen
for mission duty in Hawaii.
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"Your acceptance, however,
is provisional,
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"since there remains the matter
of obtaining a wife to accompany you.
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"To this end, you would be well advised
to present yourself in one month's time
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"at the house of Charles and Abigail
Bromley in Walpole, New Hampshire,
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"there to meet their daughter,
a Christian girl of 22.
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"May I also take the liberty
of suggesting that in the interim
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"you work in your father's fields
each day with your hat off.
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Yours in Christ, Elifaleth Thorn."
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Do you think
she will accept you, Abner?
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If God wishes it.
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Let us pray together.
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Almighty God, look down with pity
on this miserable company of sinners,
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conceived in lust, delivered in evil,
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and slaves to every loathsome appetite
the flesh is heir to.