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at the Rectory there. Then the cable people tried to put up a bluff, until I insisted on seeing the original of my message, which was produced after some searching, & sure enough the word Gloucestershire had been struck out. Then I insisted on them sending it again but to the right address, but for extra precaution I added the word Cirencester.

We are glad that you have been so thoughtful as to get us another photo of yourself, & I hope the methods of Beresford will be satisfactory. By the bye Beresford is the name of a new tailor I have gone to for some clothes with not the entire approval of your little fat Mummy. He was a cutter at Chorley's, & he said he was hard up, so I gave him a turn. I hope your new photographer will not be like him.

I read a review of the "White Knights of Dartmoor", of which you speak. It is an extraordinary thing that morals should be so terribly slack in the army at a time when so many fellows are in hourly danger of death. Only the other day we read of young Tennyson, heir to the peerage, whom we knew as a boy out here when his father was Governor General, being a co-respondent in a suit brought by a brother officer Captain Bethel, whose wife was a daughter of Lord Glenconner (Mr. Asquith's brother). When young fellows walk off with the wives of brother officers who are on active service, things can't go very much lower.

 

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