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Perhaps here it will be best for me to tell straight off what the contents of Mr. Vandeleur's letter were. Not, I mean, to go into all as to when and how grandmamma told me about it, with 'she said's' and 'I said's. ' Besides, it would not be quite correct to tell it that way, for as a matter of fact I did not understand everything _then_ as I do now that I am several years older, and it would be difficult not to mix up what I have since come to know with the ideas I then had -- ideas which were in some ways mistaken and childish.
First of all, how do you think Cousin Cosmo, as I was told to call him, had come to write again after all those years of silence? What had put it into his head?