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CHAPTER VI
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I shall receive at the India House a bill I have discounted for L1000 on the 4th of next month, and then shall be happy that you will accept this proof of my sincere love and esteem, and let me add, _Si res ampla domi similisque affectibus esset_, I should be happy to repeat the like every year.
The mere transcription of the friendly man's good letter has something of the effect of an exercise of religion.

And it was only one of a series of kind acts on the part of the same generous giver.
It is always interesting in the case of a great man to know how he affected the women of his acquaintance.

Women do not usually judge character either so kindly or so soundly as men do, for they lack that knowledge of the ordeals of practical life, which gives both justice and charity to such verdicts.

But they are more susceptible than most men are to devotion and nobility in character.

The little group of the blue-stockings of the day regarded the great master of knowledge and eloquence with mixed feelings.


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