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that no one but myself will understand your meaning. A very pleasant man certainly has asked my leave to win Mary, he was at Acton last year a long time & is there again now, he married a daughter of Sir Roberts' in India who died there 2 years ago, he returns to India next year, I wrote & told him I felt so convinced that a warm Climate wd not agree with Mary that I could not consent to her making the trial, he still remains at Acton, rather
[address] Mrs Macarthur on board the Royal George George Hotel Portsmouth
If sailed to be returned to Mrs Egerton Gresford Lodge Chester
seeks than shuns us, & I fancy is gaining in Mary's good opinion, it makes me tremble to see him, for I know nothing to object to but India, and health is so much a blessing from above, that I know not that I am right than thus taking it in my own hands, he is a son of the late Gnl. Gubbins & has three brothers all in the civil service in Bengal, it will be so long before you hear again from [Continued on Page 120]
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