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Ma chere Marie
I promised you last evening that I would come to take
tea with you today, and anticipated much pleasure in so doing.
As circumstances however have developed themselves this morning
I shall be obliged to forego the gratification. I shall, I fear,
be unable to meet the demands of my examinations, even by devoting
every moment to preparation. You will excuse me the rather, as
you know nothing but the most urgent necessity could induce me to
deprive myself of the pleasure of seeing you, and that too at a
time when I have so few opportunities of doing so.
I shall try to snatch a few moments to be with you before
the end of the week. Till then, my own sweet girl, good bye.
Yours most devotedly
F. H. S.
(Francis H. Smith to Mary Stuart Harrison)
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