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BLADE TO BLADE.
To Monsieur de Canalis: Monsieur,--You are certainly a great poet, and you are something more,--an honest man.

After showing such loyal frankness to a young girl who was stepping to the verge of an abyss, have you enough left to answer without hypocrisy or evasion the following question?
Would you have written the letter I now hold in answer to mine, -- would your ideas, your language have been the same,--had some one whispered in your ear (what may prove true), Mademoiselle O.
d'Este M.has six millions and does intend to have a dunce for a master?
Admit the supposition for a moment.

Be with me what you are with yourself; fear nothing.

I am wiser than my twenty years; nothing that is frank can hurt you in my mind.