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3 Old Mr. Duff has left Para and is now retired in Inverness. Mr. Ross of the Bank is now on leave in Edinburgh. Mr. Cole
is still in Para. Well, enough about ourselves I am so gald to hear you have got safely back. What a fund of glorious information
you must have this time If I had you on a steamer for a few days, I would extract it in all its fullness. How fondly I look
back to those three days, going down river, when I had you all to myself and heard all about the wooden clock and your nocturnal
rising in order to escape your father's sternness, filled all the time with a series of smaller anxieties, lest the paternal
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