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MY DEAR BLANCHE,
As I was writing to your father I was, of course, strongly impressed with a sense of "you"; for you are an intrusive kind of creature, coming into one's consciousness in the most lawless way -- Phyllis-like. (Phyllis is my "type and example" of lawlessness, albeit I'm devoted to her -- a Phyllistine, as it were.)