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LETTER XXIV. To a Lady, complaining of her Coolness.

Clinton Place, June 10, 1914.

Dear Ruth :

How often have I passed my late conduct in review before me, endeavoring to discover by what word or act I could have given you offense. Vain, however, has been the attempt, for the offense which I have given must have been totally inadvertent, and could never have sprung from any intention to have given you even a moment's uneasiness. But that by some means I have had the misfortune to incur your displeasure has been but too evidently indicated by the change of your behavior towards me, a change from the kindness of an I attached friend to the cool indifference of a distant acquaintance. Of late, when in your presence I have been many times upon the point of asking upon what occasion and by what means I have displeased you. But as constantly have I needed the courage to do so, and my voice has failed me whenever I have endeavored to make the attempt. In the hope of being eased front a painful state of anxiety, I write this letter and trust that you will give me some explanation on the subject referred to, either by an answer in your handwriting or through your own lips at our next meeting. But whatever that reply may be of this be assured, that my esteem for you can never know a change, and that you will ever live as a cherished object in the breast of him who now subscribes himself,

Yours most affectionately and sincerely,

Walter Gladstone.
To Miss Ruth Harcona.

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