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polite note saying that I was not accustomed to receive gifts from young ladies or giving same. My forehead was becoming wrinkled - and some days later on receiving an invitation to spend a week end at their place found it was impossible as I had no time to spare. This is surely leap year or I am a very desireable [[desirable]] subject for ambitious mothers and designing daughters - It is rather good fun and I look in the glass with some amount of interest trying to flatter myself into believing that I am charming. I am not going to be caught and English ladies who are awfully and dangerously sentimental or scheming [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] explains in a way why the men here must always be distant and reserved when out side their own walls - I feel like a 

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social favorite
Love to all
William —
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