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Income-tax Office, April 8, 18. / My dear Lord De Guest, / I hardly know how to answer your letter, it is so very kind -- more than kind. And about not writing before -- I must explain that I have not liked to trouble you with letters. I should have seemed to be encroaching if I had written much. Indeed it didn't come from not thinking about you. And first of all, about the money -- as to your offer, I mean. I really feel that I do not know what I ought to say to you about it, without appearing to be a simpleton. The truth is, I don't know what I ought to do, and can only trust to you not to put me wrong. I have an idea that a man ought not to accept a present of money, unless from his father, or somebody like that. And the sum you mention is so very large that it makes me wish you had not named it. If you choose to be so generous, would it not be better that you should leave it me in your will?
"So that he might always want me to be dying," said Lord De Guest, as he read the letter out loud to his sister.