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N.W. to the Cotswold plateau
N. beyond Banbury & all the
intervening space of few or no
rails & sparse main roads.

I like your story. Peter
& the Lady Sabine are
problems, he a sort of Hamlet,
she the battleground between the
natural charm of a good heart
and the ambitious promptings
of a sound head. Bonamy
Avelard (a very happy
hit that name) & Father
Tobias stand out as types

but I'm not sure that I don't
give the palm of the whole
lot to Simon Rede, precursor
of what was resolute & simple
& profound in the Protestant -
Puritan Movement.

As for Henry VIII he might
have sat for his Holbein
portrait as a king in a
pack of cards with his
pig eyes and his paunch
& not quite perfect leg.

And then the underworld!
In to that I just followed