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times - On all accounts I hope getting Violets passport to come back with is a long business. Our crossing the Mediterranean could be very risky, and crossing the Atlantic likewise 

If I would go back to London soon it could knock on the head Emily’s trip over here -  so I think there is nothing to do but for us all to stay scattered as we are - I only hope Emily won't suffer from this isolation. 

I do myself a good deal, and think that I ought not to have allowed myself to

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be caught in this impasse. There was a moment when I might have returned, but then Emily was to have come over -

With all these preoccupations it has seemed absurd to be lazily cruising about for ten days in these tropical waters - with very little chance of even sketching - and a strong moral pressure put upon one to fish - not to fish was to "offenser le bon Dieu" and one's host. We almost went to Havana, but that was given up