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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER IV
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I hope that meets your ideas.

Don't you think vase will do?
Does it satisfy you ?" I told him, sincerely enough, that it satisfied me; for I must be most unreasonable to be dissatisfied at anything that he chooses to put in a book which I never shall read.
Mackintosh was very agreeable; and, as usually happens when I meet him, I learned something from him.

[Macaulay wrote to one of his nieces in September 1859: "I am glad that Mackintosh's Life interests you.

I knew him well; and a kind friend he was to me when I was a young fellow, fighting my way uphill."] The great topic now in London is not, as you perhaps fancy, Reform, but Cholera.

There is a great panic; as great a panic as I remember, particularly in the City.


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