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- an expression they use in Paree, I believe. 

Hell, since the bad break you made in marrying the wrong brother, I have been living the life of a down-trodden slave as usual. The political situation has you poor little brother by the throat and its knee on his breast-bone. To use 4 end parallel English, I am working like the very old devil, and older. That, of course is beside the question. It is what we all must do at one stage or another of our existence on this disappointing sphere and none of us has the right to kick. At any rate, alas, we'll all be older before we know more about it, and if the worst comes we have the consolation of knowing that the chances are we will die before we are buried.

But, to return to the subject proper, last Monday I made my party, or,rather, my wedding, call. Promptly and with my accustomed grace I hopped aboard the [[?]] & E.G. motor