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 your name very differently from anything else. There is something quite reckless about your capital 'J,' and you wouldn't give Browning or Bismarck such a genial 'B' as you put into Brunt."

On second thoughts, however, he concluded that he would rather risk detection than do anything so as have an amanuensis, and, after much consultation, we agreed that if he continued to write extra small in his character as Miss Lamb, and if he were to exaggerate his own hand when it came time to assume the more familiar rôle of John Brunt, there would be nothing to excite suspicion. And events justified our confidence.

In his next letter, John, in the character of Miss Lamb, asked to be addressed.

which I thought indicated a greater impatience to receive his correspondent's future letters than literary people usually feel when appealed to in such a matter.