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he has pronounced [[underlined in red]] "palsy", [[/underlined in red]] which looks more to me as [[underlined in red]] locomotor ataxia which make it difficult for him to walk to speak, and to coordinate his movements. [[/underlined in red]] But then we were off and I noticed he [[underlined in red]] drove very poorly [[/underlined in red]] but I imagined the distance was only a couple of minutes and out of politeness to our host I did not [[strikethrough]] want [[/strikethrough]] dare to suggest that I should drive. At the same time [[underlined in red]] I felt much preoccupied as to the possibility of an accident [[/underlined in red]] and reasoned that [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] it was cowardly on my part to permit him to drive only on account of a question of politeness which [[strikethrough]] engenders [[/strikethrough]] endangered the lives of every one in the car. I do not mind being killed but 
[[vertical annotation in left margin in red]] Accident in Matheson's car [[/left margin]]
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the [[underlined in red]] killing of Celine and myself at the same time would create serious complications [[/underlined in red]] in our family. Just while I was thinking over all this and how to find a pretext to stop W. J. Matheson, the car swerved against a tree stump and threw Celine out of the car but she held fast on the handle of the door and this saved a serious accident. The [[underlined in red]] car would have rolled over it it were not that the front axle in breaking, absorbed the shock. [[/underlined in red]] Never shall I be so foolish again as to let mere politeness interfere by being driven by an incompetent driver.
[[underlined in red]] Poor Matheson in his illness certainly does not realize that he can no longer drive [[/underlined in red]]