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5 The bit I mark about Fred would perhaps make you feel why how his
6conduct of late years unreadable affected Will & myself in a way
7nothing can change. When you have always acted loyally to a person
8over-seeing all their faults, making the best of them to every one.
9Their absolutely unlike ideal of manhood & honour seem to form a chasm
10which even you are unable to understand. Its not that a person does it
11to you: it’s that they can do it.
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13 The little mention of poor old Alice not long before the end, of
14mother is pathetic. Return it.
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16 I am utterly opposed in all my views on politics to my old Will. Yet
17there is nothing in the world would induce me to write an attack up on
18him, & when I look on th his dead face lying as the little mother’s
19did, I shall never think my tongue or pen brought a grey hair over his
20old forehead or broke one string in his heart.
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