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hard worker. And then, as I had been as well all that month, reading much, and working joyously, and going out in pleasant companies, and divers times to the play, so was [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] this changed suddenly, for I did take a bad cold, and have been more than four days in bed; having to give up several things to which I had been invited, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] but what is [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]] most grievous to me, my studio, [[strikethrough]] for a week [[/strikethrough]].  Wherein my dear master, Epictetus, did give me right good comfort. [[strikethrough]] And in Plato also have I found much solace and joy. - Oh, Hieronymus is worse than ever! - You will be beseeching me to remember that I am living in Paris, in the nineteenth century, and to write more like an American girl and less like a medieval, most serious jester. [[/strikethrough]]

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But [[strikethrough]] in spite [[/strikethrough]] of all the gaiety and the people, and the life here, I wish I were [[strikethrough]] would still return most gladly to that [[/strikethrough]] in castle [[strikethrough]] of ours [[/strikethrough]] see you there when I could in SPAIN.  For there is no one in the world like you, none in the whole wide world! No single thing like that dear companionship that gave such joy and strength and trust, my comrade and my friend, M
 So may we ever thus give each good aid, Aye joining foot to foot, and side to side.  C.D.
carved chimney-piece. But when all is ready, we will invite such rare and charming guests - who at our courteous invitation will not refuse to come from distant climes and their home in the historic part - that no King nor Kaiser had ever nobler at his board. But indeed, some of these live not far from us; for I do think [[strikethrough]] there be few among the great [[/strikethrough]] that all great poets and thinkers have [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] a castle anywhere in Spain, and I most heartily believe that, after life is past, [[strikethrough]] all men [[/strikethrough]] everyone will be let to live therein [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] awhile by a kindly Providence.

- So shall we make the courtly old Doge with the beautiful name; and that most gentle [[strikethrough]] lady [[/strikethrough]] one, Dante's Beatrice; & Desidirius Erasmus (whom Hieronymus looketh upon with great favour for that he did write the Praise of Folly). And because of the great renown of these Persons, I would fain add the man with the Glove, who hath so winning a personality, and who, moreover, would somewhat hearten Hierome, whose name is like his own unknown. Can you not imagine that