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I do not even know I am promised a perfectly good end; but so were any babies of old who ended in being eaten by the ogress.

We are never too old for adventures; but pray that I come safely out of this one.

On 30. 9. 21 he writes:

Very many thanks for The Secret Victory'', with the delightful dedication and preface. I am not at all sure that I shall not read the book again.''

I have just returned from an interview with the local income-tax brigand which filled me with some apprehensions After a jest or two, I left the brigand's cave unscathed

I go to the Wharf to-morrow for a week and may stay on a day or two longer, if pressed: I always do, you know

I had been invited to deliver some lectures in Sweden and Denmark. Teixeira was good enough to read the manuscript of these, as of almost everything I wrote. With his letter of 3. 10. 21 he returned the first:

''Here is your lecture I really cannot suggest any cuts. My one and only lecture read 2-3/4 minutes: this is no reason why yours should not''