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LETTER XLII. The Answer.

Philadelphia, January 6, 1914.

Dear Old Fellow:

And so you really are to be a Benedict! Well! I have no objection, provided you feel convinced that it is a measure likely to tend to your happiness. For myself, I am still a bachelor, although I do not know what such temptation as you appear to have undergone might not do towards upsetting my present resolutions. You know I have no antipathy to matrimony: but unlike yourself I have not independent means sufficient to render me fearless of consequences, and should not be disposed to involve any woman, whom I could like sufficiently to make my wife, in a doubtful state of circumstances, if not in a discomfort which must be painful to a man of proper feeling and honor. At the same time, believe me, I cordially sympathize with your delight at the prospect of an agreeable union and wish sincerely that every happiness may be the result.

Ever truly yours,

Henry.
To Mr. Benj. Bigelow.

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