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for it would be rather unpleasant to be all alone. if there is any danger of your being so, I wish you would come and stay with me awhile. 
If I could write as rapidly as you, then I could eat my dinner with the knowledge of having accomplished something is to have written a short letter within an hour; but no this shall not be, the hour for the call of food is near and I must eat my food without the salt of satisfaction.
If I could send you some freshwater cress and some partridge taken on the wing, you may be sure I would spend [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]]a day in hunting them for