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if you have not determined only to eat and drink, and be stupidly useful to the stupid—

Yours
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LETTER XXI.

H———, August 19, Tuesday.

I received both your letters to-day—I had reckoned on hearing from you yesterday, therefore was disappointed, though I imputed your silence to the right cause. I intended answering your kind letter immediately, that you might have felt the pleasure it gave me; but ——— came in, and some

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