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that night, happier than I had been in a long time & happier than I will be for a long time.  I will never if I can help it let the same cause make me happy again.

[[underlined]] April 29th 1895 [[/underlined]].

Some people are going on the coach with us to-day and I have just been arranging the seats etc.  Its not so easy.

Mr Laurence has sailed for Europe for his health.  He had the Grippe very badly.

[[underlined]] April 30th 1895 [[/underlined]].

I have now completely recovered from the attack of the "Sands" which I had quite
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badly.  I don't know whether it just happened that Jay Burden told me some things about Mr Sands as he would about any one, or whether he had heard something.  At any rate he took away the very things I admired in Mr Sands.  It showed I never cared very much or I should certainly not have changed my mind so easily.  I think I will tell him his fortune and in it all the disagreeable things I can think of.  They will be true too.  I had such a nice talk with Mr Cottenet on the coach yesterday.  He