(seq. 5)

What do you think he says. Why he says have you
solved it yet. Solved what? I say to him. Why
solved that diagram. He turns round and goes out
again without saying a word more. Oh, he has lately
been reading Mirebeau. After he had read along some
way, & found out what he was driving at, he came
and laid down the book, and said, "I dont like him
one bit," and away he marched out again. "Neckar, he
says, has solid argument in it." — What next. O know
I suppose you would like to know something about the
bower &c. You know the tree, which hangs over the rock
of absence. [illegible] It does not look as it did last summer.
Its leaves are withered and scattered round the place
where your bower once stood. The little trees, which
formed the bower, have fallen down. The tre rocks,
which you used for seats, still remain. I went up the
other day and sat down there. But it seemed like the
remembrance of joys that are past, although I had not
tasted those joys. You know that tree, which they
supposed had honey in it. It was cut down the