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as I afterwards was taken.

Well Dad nothing has been done yet re my rank, or rather nothing material.

But it will be, for I shall never be contented to stop in one place.

I have had to take the buffet, which makes me the more determined to place myself in a position from which I can so some of the buffeting.

I am cram full of hopes and anticipations.

I am, I suppose, what you would call a dreamer, confident though, that I shall not always remain such, for after all my dreams are not so vast nor so infinate that they are beyond human strength and capacity: and so with the help of God, a little of the determination which I think I have, and the opportunities which the service should open up for me, I may yet place Two roses in the chaplet from which one has fallen.

Fight as one may, there is only one real way to succeed, and that is to hold the key to success – (do you follow) for instance Mr Bemrose holds one of the keys – you never held one – Bemrose wanted you to: you know what I mean. I had not intended to worry you with my hopes, but to tell you of them when, and only when they had taken some shape. But looking at the note you put in my hand before when

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