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I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect ... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and
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to Nussey might damage her reputation and asked Nussey to destroy them, but she refused. Nussey sought to have the letters from
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