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worse," he said. All this rather annoyed me, while it decidedly surprised me. Can it be that he made up his mind before leaving to do his best with the heiress. That was my thought, but I made up my mind he should not see it, and then, I really had not thought him that kind. His life as far as I can make out is this - At ten he went to Poe where he stayed seven years, then comes an interval of seven years, I don't know what

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happened then. After that he was out West on a Ranch for ten years then New York from '91 to last January. Since then he has been in Nice. (age 35) Best to go back to to-day.

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[[underlined]] April 17th 1895. [[/underlined]]

When I was away I used to imagine sometimes when and how I would meet Mr Sands for the first time when I came back. It happened really this way -

Sunday a lot of people