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Theirs must be an irksome life enough , as much of it as is passed out of their own doors : but they seem to be finding out that it is not so much the _ where _ and the _ how _ , as the _ what _ people are , that matters to their peace of mind ; and I suppose those who love each other , and have settled what they are living for , can attain what they most want , nearly so well in one place as another . `` Poor Anne wrote to _ you _ , I know , after the death of her infant -- her little Highlandman , as she proudly called him in her last letter before she lost him . Gilchrist talked last year of bringing her and his boy south this summer , and I had some hopes of seeing them all here : but I have not been able to get them to speak again of travelling , and I give it up for this year . I hope your letters and theirs fall due seasonably ; that your reports of all your devices to cool yourself , reach them in the depth of their Caithness winter ; and that all they say to you of their snow-drifts and freshets is acceptable when you are panting in the hottest of your noons . Anne writes more cheerfully than she did , and Gilchrist says she is exerting herself to overcome her sorrow . Their love must be passing strange in the eyes of all such as despised Anne 's match . It is such as should make Anne 's brothers feel very cordially towards Gilchrist .