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"SIR,--I am about to write to you the longest letter which I have ever written in my life, and, I make bold to say, one of the strangest letters ever written by one man to another.
"Sir George, you will find me, in this letter, assuming an indignant and injured tone; and at first you will laugh at such an idea,--at the idea of a man so deeply steeped in crime as I am having any right to feel injury or injustice; but you will not laugh at the end, Sir George. If your better feelings don't prevent you doing that, what I have to tell you will put you into no laughing mood.