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suppose I could save £600. I have asked the Attorney-
General if I come back to the Bar in two years, whether the absence
would hurt me. He says it would be all the other way, that
it would be a tremendous advancement, and that having been
Milner's Private Secretary would secure me a lot of S. Africa
appeals. Strachey is to give me the refusal of old Townsend's
place at the Spectator if it falls vacant while I am away,