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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: really miss you. Miss La Heu begs me to add that if this is not
sufficient inducement, you shall have a slice of Lady Baltimore."
Not a long note! But you will imagine how genuinely I was touched by
their joint message. I was not an old acquaintance, and I had done little
to help them in their troubles, but I came into the troubles; with their
memory of those days I formed a part, and it was a part which it warmed
me to know they did not dislike to recall. I had actually been present at
their first meeting, that day when John visited the Exchange to order his
wedding-cake, and Eliza had rushed after him, because in his embarrassment
he had forgotten to tell her the date for which he wanted it.
The cake had begun it, the cake had continued it, the cake had brought
them together; and in Eliza's retrospect now I doubted If she could find
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