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MRS. DE WYNT TO MRS. MONTRESOR. "18, Eccleston Square, "My Dearest Cecilia, "Talk of the friendships of Orestes and Pylades, of Julie and Claire, what are they to ours? Did Pylades ever go venfre d terre^ half over London on a day more broiling than any but an dme damnie could even imagine, in order that Orestes might be comfortably housed for the season? Did Claire ever hold sweet converse with from fifty to one hundred house a^euVs^^ sx