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didn't know hers. The note
that she sent me was merely
a pleasant little effusion
of self introduction, which
if you didn't read, you might
have blushed a bit at the
therein contained compliment to
yourself, and thus indirectly
to me. ---

About the second part of the
[cali?] first:

I tried to take all angles of the
question into consideration. I [can?],
and, you may be sure, that
them [over?] with you at my
side. And I was fully and
definitely decided upon getting
the latest letter that I have
received from you, in which
you remember you wrote, "To
imagine you killing someone, just
because he was on the other
side -- I should abhor it.
yet -- of course for a
big view of the case, that's
mere sentimentalism which
has been indulged in too