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To
ALFRED SUTRO
I dedicate to you this slight tribute to the memory of
our friend. You were the luckier, in knowing him the
longer. I shall be more than content if you find, in
reading this book, as I found in reading his letters
again, that he has returned to us even for a moment and
that a whim of his language or an echo of his laughter
has recreated the triple alliance which he founded.
