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pain instead of being made finer by it. For you to die would in no wise mend the hurt you have done me mentally and physically since I have known you & would increase it a hundred fold; but a few human words to one in sorrow or angre [[anger]] would do all. Yet thise [[this]] you are too set & proud to try to learn how to speak, it seems. O, my friend don't be angry. I know you will not brook anything like rebuke from anyone. I am not entitled to give it. Only I feel certain that unless you can admit to yourself that you might change your "nature" as you have called