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A fourth Monday, and my letter has not come. Oh, Max, Max! -- You are not ill, I know; for Augustus saw you on Saturday. Why were you in such haste to slip away from him? He himself even noticed it.
For me, had I not then heard of your wellbeing, I should have disquieted myself sorely. Three weeks -- twenty-one days -- it is a long time to go about as if there were a stone lying in the corner of one's heart, or a thorn piercing it. One may not acknowledge this: one's reason, or better, one's love, may often quite argue it down; yet, it is there. This morning, when the little postman went whistling past Rockmount gate, I turned almost sick with fear.