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Adventures and Letters

CHAPTER XIX
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God bless you both, Hope's dad and your husband.
ATHENS, November 26th.
DEAR HEART: I am off tonight for Salonica.

I am not very cheerful for I miss you very, very terribly, and the further I go, the worse I feel.

But now I am nearly as far as I can get, and when you receive this I will--thank God--be turned back to Paris, and London, and HOME! I thought so often of you this morning when I took a holiday and climbed the Acropolis.
On the top of it I picked a dandelion for you.

It was growing between the blocks of marble that have been there since 400 years before our Lord: before St.Paul preached to the Athenians.

I was all alone on the rock, and could see over the AEgean Sea, Corinth, Mount Olympus, where the Gods used to sit, and the Sphinx lay in wait for travelers with her famous riddle.


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