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Dear Miss Yonge I will see whether we can find some one who would do a few vigorous outlines for the little Duke. Something like those to Kingsleys Heroes. Reproductions of foreign books are not generally successful.
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Dear Mrs Charles
Thank you most heartily for the book you have been so kind as to send me. Such lives as those always remind me of that saying of Sir Walter Scott that Mrs Hemans preserved - ‘Do not say that noble blood is wasted, it sends down a roaring voice through all time’
May it lead to fresh worthy deeds -
Yours sincerely C M Yonge
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