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puts it; so that one has an idea which was
Beery's idea of a paramour. Odd's chimney pots
& salamander stoves! it is a very formidable
idea. - Not a word of this to Susie. I am
not one of those who go about to shatter hero-worship.

I don't believe there is a word of truth
in that story about Ramsay Macdonald & Lady
Drogheda.

We move in the best & most exclusive
Set in the Riviera wh. consists of our two selves.

Four days a week they serve us with
a "poisson" wh. they call "Loup de Mer". As its
name implies, it is about three times as bad as a
dog-fish.

Katie has gout in her big toe, like
the first Lord Chatham, but behaves better in the fire.

Love to you both. What remains of us
(of me very little, for what with lack of food,
& worry about my country, I can put a shooting
boot down inside my collar) intends being home
before Easter.

I always seem to cash my cheques
the day before the franc dives. I have not yet
discovered who loses by the franc diving - nor
who gains, for the prices all go up. Money is
[in margin:] merely an illusion like time & space, & by being stripped of
it we approach nearer the Godlike conception of the absolute.

Yours ever

F.S.O.