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135 STRAIT IS THE GATE

wanting to prolong beyond measure your stay at Le Havre and the time of our first meeting. What should we have to say to each other that we have not already written? So if the business connected with your examination calls you to Paris as early as the 28th, don't hesitate, don't even regret that you are not able to give us more than two days. Shall we not have all our lives?”