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go.  Nice as she is I did not feel like having her exclusively for a month even with Italy thrown in and she is a stranger all the time.  And it is such a boon for May to have the chance to go.  She has longed so to go.    We have about made up our minds now to leave here on Friday next, which will be October 5th   Miss Wright (Benjamin) is going to start with us.  We are going to stay over night at Rennes, and then an hour or two at Chartres.  The next day to see the cathedral, arriving in Paris on Saturday night.
We have not exactly planned our trip yet.  Miss Boyer is anxious to go to Rome and Naples, which will push us and I had not meant to go to those places but we will see.  Of course we will only stay in Paris long enough to get off.
And now prepare your dear mind for the real and serious thing I have to say.  You will not 


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perhaps believe the struggle that it costs me, because I know that this is the real end.  It is all over between me and Mr Balch.  It is not his fault, but I believe now that he is reconciled to it.  He speaks of it as "the break which I foresaw" and at the end, "I have written more but torn it up as it is silly to reproach you"   He will never know how much I cared for him and do still.  What I admired in him, what attracted me, and what I really loved.  Time and distance could not, and have not changed, but what was not 'satisfied' has grown more imperative and for the first time I know that it will not do.  I have expanded here and I could not get into the place I might have got into before.  Though even then I should have had to stifle something.  You will say that I ought to have known this before.  That if I had listened to reason I should have saved many people 

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