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['See Links to online text:\n\nTranslation:\n"Are you reading something beautiful? I’d like so much to start reading a great many books but may not, if you can get hold of John Halifax do read it again, even though we read it with nostalgia, still, let us not say ‘that is not for me’, because it’s good to go on believing in everything that’s good and noble. I heard that the man whose life and character prompted the book to be written died recently, he was called Harper and ran a large bookshop in London. I once met the painter Millais on the street in London, just after I had been so happy to see various of his paintings, and that noble figure made me think of John Halifax. Millais once painted The lost penny, a young woman looking in the early morning twilight for the penny she has lost (there’s an engraving of it, the lost mite) and not the least beautiful of his work is an autumn landscape, Chill October."']
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