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In regard to his mother's letter, all that he could do was to inclose to her, with the request that it be forwarded, Mr Ivison's defence of hi

"You perceive," he wrote, "that a stranger has taken pains to inforard to the facts of the case, and that he has forof my action on that occasion or on any other, but I do wish, and I a, to do better, and I hope to prove the same to you by years of patient effort I may fail miserably, however, as you evidently believe The fact that my folly and wickedness have driven you and reat sorrow to me, but coo into hiding would bring no remedy at all I know that I should do worse anywhere else, and ht the battle of raceful defeat"