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Excerpt from The Etchingham Letters
Please, Richard, learn one lesson that no man ever learnt yet - learn that a woman does not of necessity enjoy all that She endures with patience, nor welcome every ill she tolerates. The hammer ing and the hugger-mugger, the upset and upside down condition of everything that I have striven to suffer, if not gladly, heroically, Harry evidently believes to be welcome as the owers of May to his sister. Elizabeth likes a disturbance - all women do, he says with a touch of irritation, as he seeks, poor dear, among the chaos for his hat (upon which the furniture-removing people yesterday had thoughtfully placed the refrigerator). But was not this conclusion of Harry's a tribute to his sister's powers of self-control?
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