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Five or six days after this Mr. Lawrence paid us the honour of a call; and when he and I were alone together -- which I contrived as soon as possible by bringing him out to look at my cornstacks -- he showed me another letter from his sister. This one he was quite willing to submit to my longing gaze; he thought, I suppose, it would do me good. The only answer it gave to my message was this: --
"Mr. Markham is at liberty to make such revelations concerning me as he judges necessary. He will know that I should wish but little to be said on the subject. I hope he is well; but tell him he must not think of me. "