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Dear Fanny, 

I have your letter with the bitterness "if you have got good reasons why let me know them, if you have not say so and forever after hold your peace." 

These reasons have nothing to do with my friend, his likes or his dislikes, but were medical and as such I do not consider a modest virgin the proper person with whom to enter upon an explanation even if she is my sister, nor will I, and as such again if I preferred a crime she would be totally incapable of investigating or understanding. 

I remember to have said nothing about the person but that I [[strikethrough]] wished you would not have [[/strikethrough]] had reasons for wishing you would not have anything to do with her.  You correctly imagined it was not from fear the association would injure her but you.  After a page or so you excuse a warmth in saying that I see you must defend her in the dark,  You are wrong [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] in the must & in my seeing of it.  It was not once upon a time you would change sides to protect against me what I was trying for my sister's good to defend from her.  [[strikethrough]] You say [[/strikethrough]] When you say nothing brought in comparison Mrs. Schmitt & her German is [[strikethrough]] another but can [[/strikethrough]] no compliment to my fairness, intelligence & I prefer to think

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