O, dear, we should like it of all things,—it commends itself to us both as just the excursion to make—but unhappily there is a breakfast engagement in the way, for 12. 30 tomorrow in Paris. So we can only thank you cordially for offering us this pleasant opportunity & dam the fates for robbing us of it. 〚That word is not profane, as you will observe by the spelling.〛

So, with our best wishes for the a full day’s pleasure to you & yours—

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