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for it, and I know you are too much my friend to object to my making this fickle attempt to reciprocate benefits (Yet really the only frank way when a lady joins with me, (her looks and character joined with my ^[[sight &]] painting power) to make a work of art, it does seem that for her to stay limited in [[strikethrough]] money [[/strikethrough]] money and me to get so much, when but for such as she, I

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Abbott thought he might meet you at a photo-
graphers and escort you up here.

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really couldn't, were wrong.
   Useless chatter!  The smallness of the present gift however exempts if from any suspicion of being an attempt to pay you even in the least part but it is only a Christmas gift from a very warm friend.  Write me at once what you you would rather have than a canoe (I sh'd of course deliver it in Dublin!)