I burned great heaps of old letters and other papers, a little while ago,

preparatory to going to England. Among them were hundreds of ------'s

letters. The world has no more such, and now they are all dust and

ashes. What a trustful guardian of secret matters is fire! What should

we do without fire and death?

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