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Perhaps he has forgotten the street and number.

I might write to him--to remind him ?" Colonel Arran made no answer.
She wrote that night: "DEAR MR.

BERKLEY: "I am in my own house now and am very contented--which does not mean that I did not adore being with Celia Craig and Estcourt and the children.
"But home is pleasant, and I am wondering whether you might care to see the home of which I have so often spoken to you when you used to come over to Brooklyn to see me [_me_ erased and _us_ neatly substituted in long, sweeping characters].
"I have been doing very little since I last saw you--it is not sheer idleness, but somehow one cannot go light-heartedly to dinners and concerts and theatres in times like these, when traitors are trampling the nag under foot, and when thousands and thousands of young men are leaving the city every day to go to the defence of our distracted country.
"I saw a friend the other day--a Mrs.Wells--and _three_ of her boys, friends of mine, have gone with the 7th, and she is so nervous and excited that she can scarcely speak about it.

_So_ many men I know have gone or are going.