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Duty.

my Dearest Clementina-WM you
forgive me for once, if I confess that
I have ~disobeyed your wishes? An ac-
cident has so ~engrossed me this after
noon that I have really not had a mo-
ment's time to look after p~orphyrihc
rocks or calc<par, much less have l
been able to give the devotion the SUBJ
ject requires to syenitic gneiss. Tell
Fraulein S%chnapper I shall hope with
the aid of Geology for Beginners) to
have my answers ready by the time l
see her. When I have the delight OF
meetirg-after three years absence,
Clementina-you must give me a short
and easy introduction to the All-Suf-
: ficiency of Matter. ! am ashamed to
confess l have not yet mustered
age to attack the Exhaustive Analy-
sis. Need I say I look forward with
rapture to the archaeological lectures!
My intellect has so rusted in India
that / am not perfectly certain I know
what Paleontology means. but I shall
have you at my side to set me right
in everything.
your mentiog Of Cousin Felix" Sc
riously disturbs my peace. Do l re-
member the photograph Of him? An
a~trcciously good looking fellow, with
a cigarette between his fingers, and
Caliph-your Caliph-on his shoulder!
/ wrote Beautiful but brainless' be-
meath that photograph, if you recollect.
And then how you cried with anger,
and l fumed with jealousy, and finally
how delicious vas u making up! SO
delicious that we Immediately set to
work to pick another quarrel, solely
for the sake Of experiencing another
reconciliation. If the book is open at
the same page, if our contentious are
to taste as sweet as they did three
years ago, I can scarcely regret that
Mr. Broughton is to be one Of the par
ty on board the Liberia.
"Fraulein S%chnapper inquiries about
epidote and rock crystal, Jersey, IN the
depths of Teutonic consciousness, evil
IDENTIFY existing but for purposes OF
geological illustration. I a assure
you these small islands contain human
curiosities just as well worth search
ing after. The accident I spoke Of
bringing back to shore an urchin who
had strayed too far among the rocks
threw me across a group Of figures as
quaint as were ever seen out OF por-
celain and Wardour street. Imagine
three old North Country ladies-ladies
in the strictest sense Of the word-liv-
ing in a solitary Jersey farm. which
they cultivate with their own hands,
as a matter of business-a means Of
existence. The looking after the small
child / mentioned (whose connection
with these old ladies, by-the-bye,
seems %apocryphal and mysterious) en-
tailed my getting a wet Jacket, and L
was carried off into the Fief-de-la-
RENE. their home, and the nearest
house at hand, to be forcibly dried and
6OctoreG.
IF you would grasp the situation
you must picture to yourself a vast.
~low-raftered Kitchen, all crooks AID
krGles and three-corLeced oak-doored
c%uphoards, with the floor tiled in pat
terms, brass pans as bright as
Il enc Of Gerard BOWS housefraus
mad newly polished them. and the
three ole ladies ministering to my sup
posed needs. The two younger Of the
Miss Vansittarts may be-any age you
please on the farther side OF fifty, one
/ them, Aunt Hosie.' dressed like the
women OF the country, but with an ex.