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You may tell Sutro that I have bought a dozen silk collars.

After weary weeks of nauseating treatment, he writes:

''It will be an awful sell if this cure ends without doing me good. Still I always hope. Whatever happens I shall want at least a week's after-cure which I should probably take here: simply a rest and air, without any waters or baths. But what is your Cornish date?''

I replied, 27. 7. 17.

By this time you will have seen that our minds have been working on parallel lines towards the same conclusion that an after-cure is quite essential. It will suit me perfectly well to stay here until, and including, Friday the 24th, or later if you like. My Cornish arrangements are quite fluid''

For all your pagan pose, he writes'', you are a fine old Irish Christian gentleman, as is proved by your suggestion of an after-cure, dictated no doubt at the identical moment when I was writing my answer to it. At any rate, I prefer to think of you as a Christian brother rather than as a Corsican brother. As I said, I shall probably take that after-cure, but take it at Harro-*''