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to-day I was sadly laughed at in
Shakespere - I had to give a
report on Queen Elizabeth in
Richard III and was just getting
hugely conceited because I didn't
get rattled when I volunteered
the information that Henry VII -
didn't wish to marry the princess
Elizabeth after his accession to the
throne, & when Prof. Anderson
asked me why he did marry her
then - I practically answered
"because he promised" instead
of saying it was to join the
houses of York & Lancaster. Prof.
Anderson laughed & so did the
whole class - I am consequently
unmercifully "joshed" for my
[illegible] & belief in mankind.

The lunch bell has rung so