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MY DEAR BLANCHE,
Returning here from the city this morning, I find your letter. And I had not replied to your last one before that! But "that" was because I hoped to see you at your home. I was unable to do so -- I saw no one (but Richard) whom I really wanted to see, and had not an hour unoccupied by work or "business" until this morning. And then -- it was Christmas, and my right to act as skeleton at anybody's feast by even so much as a brief call was not clear. I hope my brother will be as forgiving as I know you will be.