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Laycock Abbey

24^th August

My Dear Henry

This is my third letter since you went! & not one from you. This rain will bring you home to your Penates, ¹ I surmise. I have just been reading “ourquoi faut – il que la vie <viéille?> ressemble si peu à la vie de l’imagination? à quelle fin nous est-elle donc donnée, cette imagination? Mysterè impénétrable!” ² How often one has thought this –

Porter ³ has just brought me thirty seven which he did yesterday. a great many Lace which I suppose he was ordered to do.