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Antoinette Rossiter To Her Mother
Dearest Mummie,—I hope you are quite well. I have a cold. Daddy tells me to tell you that if you don’t come home soon he will take another lady in wholly wedlock. So please come soon because we have decided we couldn’t endure her. I send you a thousand kisses.—Your loving
Tony
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XII
Nesta Rossiter to Richard Haven
Dear “Uncle” Richard,—Aunt Verena asks me to tell you that the specialist is very hopeful that she may be quite as strong and active as ever, but it will be a long business. Injuries to the spine are, however, very dangerous things, and there can be no certainty yet. Directly she can, she is going to write to you with her own hand. You are to be the first. Meanwhile she says that your daily letters are a great joy, but you must not hesitate to break the custom if it is ever at all troublesome.—Yours sincerely,
Nesta