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In the small hours of tomorrow morning, locked in a room at the Colonial Dames, I am drinking a silent toast of about a teaspoonful of brandy to you & Rod on the announcement of your engagement! To be sure, if one were to take it literally some of the picturesque loneliness of the scene might be modified by the facts that I would have taken the brandy in any case as it is all that remains of my medical stock & I am trying to assuage violent pains, and that I have a very sympathetic companion spending the night with me - don't be alarmed, it is merely Baba Black Sheep whom I smuggled past the chaperone - & in case you don't know of her, she 

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