1Thursday Night
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3I am waiting for the bell to ring for dinner. Oh that wild mad noise
4of the wind & water. It makes one’s heart sink. I get your letters at
5such a nice time now, just as it gets dark. I like that best of all.
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7About your article I am so glad. I’ve got a feeling it will be taken.
8Whether it is or not you will come to see me. I shall have lots of
9money for us at Xmas. The great difficulty is that I don’t see what we
10are to do if you come here. We could never be together even for a
11little talk except we went out for a walk, & if the weather continues
12like this, we might not he able to go out once in a whole week. I
13should be able to get you a room here for 30/- a week board & all. I
14don’t see how we are to manage. I wish you were a woman. What do you
15think. I can’t get any apartments in which I could be well at a price
16I could pay.
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18There is a tiny parlour here in which there are always from five to
19seven old ladies sitting!!
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21I am working, very slowly, but still working. I am going to send for
22the books my mind cannot always brood on itself, eh? Have you had a
23letter from Estott Escott? Do you think I will get a guide to
24Switzerland like yours to Paris at the London.
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26^I kiss you, my sweet boy. Oh Harry how lonely that water would sound
27to me if you were nowhere in the world^
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29Olive
30Later
3110.30.
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33I am just going to bed. I have done such good work. My chest troubles
34me so at night. You know Henry I don’t think I will ever be quite well
35again, but there’s no use taking about it. It so splendid to work when
36it is all one’s soul in it isn’t it? Now I would like to have you near
37me to rest.
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39Good night my helper.
40Olive
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