Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 163
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feel so frantically keen on it, I'm still a bit down over Jim & also I have to go alone. Madame Herault (who used to live in Sydney) is away in the country et ma petite Jeanne (de Amiens) que ete a Paris pour deux huit semaines revendrai elle retourna a Amiens dernier Lundi, par consequent je sourrai personne.
Interval of 12 days!!! *** (Have you any rows of asterisks in your book?)
My dear I've been to Paris & I feel almost as if I'd been to Heaven. It is a simply enthralling place. Even those first spring days in in dear old London with Tan didn't uplift me as much as my little stay in Paris. It is a good thing I have the magnet of you dear people in Australia pulling me back irrestibly otherwise I don't think I could stay away from Paris & London for long. Its the most beautiful place, Paris lovelier far & more fascinating than I ever even dreamed a place would be. I feel almost ashamed to enjoying it so when so many of my pals have gone or suffered & when I won't see Jim any more I must have a light nature after all.