Adieu. I think of nothing further to add, but that I am, with the tenderest regard, your
Portia.
FOOTNOTES:
[106] Somewhere about the southeasterly corner of the Common.
[107] Dr. Franklin, Mr. Lynch, and Colonel Harrison, who came from the Continental Congress to mature the plans for continuing the army.
71. Abigail Adams.
Braintree, 22 October, 1775.
Mr. Lothrop called here this evening, and brought me yours of the 1st of October,—a day which will ever be remembered by me, for it was the most distressing one I ever experienced. That morning I rose, and went into my mother's room, not apprehending her so near her exit; went to her bed with a cup of tea in my hand, and raised her head to give it to her. She swallowed a few drops, gasped, and fell back upon her pillow, opening her eyes with a look that pierced my heart, and which I shall never forget; it was the eagerness of a last look;
"And oh, the last sad silence of a friend!"