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a gay limpet but a perfectly moral: M's brother comes down on Monday.

For the rest, I have the same room, but have not yet cracked my skull against the canopy of the same fourposter; and I am perfectly happy

Your original waybill is found, he adds, 30. 8. 21.''; but I have the receipt of no letter from you to acknowledge. N. went up after breakfast y'day and brother R. M. came down before dinner. He is a pleasant New Zealander and took a lot out of me at bridge.''

''Life here pursues its quiet course. I accompanied M. and W. to the sea's edge yesterday but found the effort of ploughing through the shingle tolerably exhausting and shall not repeat it to-day. Indeed, the whole family, Miss T. included, are bathing now and I am writing twaddle to you under the pear-tree.''

''And, as I live, I think I'll write no more. I have no more to say; and the papers have just come. I leave here after lunch (eon) to-morrow, spend an hour or two in Chichester cathedral and arrive home in time for my bread and milk''

On his return to Chelsea and a typewriter, he says, 1. 9. 21:

You will be pleased to receive a letter from me in legible type, instead of in that hand which is