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Mrs. weston, turning over old Christmas cards in the course of the spring cleaning (which Vance's illness had deplorably delayed), came on one giving a view of Iceboating On The Hudson, and said: "Lucilla Tracy--why, now, I don't know's anybody's ever acknowledged that card. ."
The doctors said that Vance ought to get away for the hot weather-- clear away, to a new place with new air and new associations. Nineteen was a nasty age to have a shake-up of that kind, they said; it took time to build up a growing body after such a tumble. The family'd better not talk to the boy about looking round for a job till the autumn--just let him lie fallow through the hot months, somewhere by the sea if it could be managed.