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gentleness. On the night of the attempted assassination there was a grand illumination all the public buildings & large stores. Police came around and requested people to illuminate or rather ordered them to.

The king of Prussia & Bismark leave to day I believe to go home again. The sultan is coming in about two weeks.

I received your letter last Sunday I gave it to Billy Crowell to read. He lives with me in my room & I had a jolly hunt to find it just now. My room is not a very big one but, the other day when I was I was in a hurry I think I spent ten minutes looking for my hat. It does me good to see that you have found good authority to back what I used to say about the future tense. [[strikethrough]] If you  [[strikethrough]] See if he mentions what I told you about a conditional mood which is only a past tense.  We use the past tense oftener in French than in America in its simplest form to make conditionals. You speak of a provincial language separating the two parts of a future tense. Cervantes writes  [[strikethrough]] it w  [[strikethrough]] in Spanish very often indifferently lo veré or verlohe. I  [[strikethrough]] will him  [[strikethrough]] him to see have or to see him I have & many others with all the verbs to make futures. 

I can't help thinking it is very fanciful to bring a word of ours from an old thing like this ardhr. except  [[strikethrough]] Language is [[strikethrough]] as a matter of curiosity.

Languages are all the same in roots & always will be & you can bring any of our words from the Chinese with equal readiness if you know the Chinese as well as Norse, & the relation between [[strikethrough]] one word and another [[strikethrough]] any two words can be traced through its father or brothers or uncles or cousins indeed in a hundred ways and you are after doing it no wiser than you were at first.  Make up you mind that all words are relatives that they are prolific & that is better