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Down, Wed ─ (83)

My dear George

I have forwarded your note to Frank — It convinces me that they might well give up all thoughts of Oxford, and he says "We both hate the thoughts of going there more than ever — also I hope there is a candidate Bowyer who wd beat me"

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We had much talk with Wm about it, & he thinks that Frank may without imprudence give it up — It will be an immediate relief to Bessy & me — She & Rachel start tomorrow mg — She is dismayed by a tel – to say that they are moved to Engelberg — a place she knows so well, having spent a dismal time

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there with William & Mabel — when he was so mis. Fr. says they [insertion:] (Ellen Crofts & Fr.) come down separately to Table d'hôte to disarm suspicion — "but it is rather a drop in the ocean" —

It will be nice to see you on Friday — Leo. comes the following one —

Here is an odd thing — It turns out that Philip Norman has been privately married more than a year to a French Catholic, sec.

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to the Empress Eugenie — It was very bad of him with such a father & mother as he had—

Wm made out Fr income now at £1250 — He has saved £1000 — What can he have done w. the rest? It makes one feel how delightful the last month has been to feel the difference now — & the hay cutting too —

Goodbye dear G ─

E.D ─