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and I have heard of nothing
but praise of Miss Enid
wherefore I congratulated
him and now congratulate
you and yours. What does
Capn. Thompson mean by travelling
in the French ship? I have a few
words of denunciation of those
silly so-called English folk who go in
French & German vessels.

It is written already for my final
chapter of my Australia, and has
already been liked by friends to
whom I have shown it, and who
had not previously known that in
order to depress English commerce
the French Govt. pay £600,000 a year
to the Messrs Ciè!. You have sent
an imaginative bomb-shell
at me by saying that you are "trying
hard to persuade Sib to leave
you and go" to England. "An if an
angel should have come to me and told me"
such a thing would come to pass, "I would
not have believed him, – no tongue but "yours,