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  *sion.[1] Questioned as to where his policy of acquisition was to
end, the following colloquy ensued:
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  "A. I would go on with it. If I thought we could realize something
  read this letter with more pain than I feel in writing it.
more than we have got from these investments I would go on and
  But it seems indispensable to me to communicate my
buy some more things.
  sentiments of the Duke's present situation to his nearest
  relation and dearest friend. His life is invaluable to his
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  country and to his family, and how dear it is to his
  friends can only be estimated by those who know the
"Q. Supposing that you got the Santa Fe?
  soundness of his understanding, the uprightness and
  truth of his judgment, and the generosity and warmth
"A. You would not let us get it.
  of his feelings.
   
"Q. How could we help it?
   
"A. How could you help it? I think you would bring out your
power to enforce the conditions of the Sherman anti-trust act pretty
  quick. If you will let us, I will go and take the Santa Fe to-morrow.
   
"Q. You would take it to-morrow?
"A. Why, certainly I would; I would not have any hesitation;
it is a pretty good property.
   
"Q. Then it is only the restriction of the law that keeps you from
  taking it?
"A. I would go on as long as I live.
"Q. Then after you had gotten through with the Santa Fe and
  had taken it, you would also take the Northern Pacific and Great
  Northern, if you could get them?
"A. If you would let me.
   
   
  "Q. And your power, which you have, would gradually increase
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  as you took one road after another, so that you might spread not only
  I am always, my dear Lord, most truly yours,
over the Pacific coast, but spread out over the Atlantic coast?
   
   
  "A. Yes."
  {{LOFE:Tag|sc}}Walter Scott{{LOFE:Tag|/sc}}.{{LOFE:Comment|right-justified}}
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  Was there ever a clearer case of megalomania, menacing the
  Scott's letters of this and the two following months
  welfare of a great people?[** not a new pargraph]
  are very much occupied with the painful subject of the
Duke of Buccleuch's health; but those addressed to his
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read this letter with more pain than I feel in writing it.
But it seems indispensable to me to communicate my
sentiments of the Duke's present situation to his nearest
relation and dearest friend. His life is invaluable to his
country and to his family, and how dear it is to his
friends can only be estimated by those who know the
soundness of his understanding, the uprightness and
truth of his judgment, and the generosity and warmth
of his feelings.

/*[** Indented further than a normal paragraph]
I am always, my dear Lord, most truly yours,

<sc>Walter Scott</sc>.[** right-justified]
*/[** No blank line between the two "closing" tags.]
#/

Scott's letters of this and the two following months
are very much occupied with the painful subject of the
Duke of Buccleuch's health; but those addressed to his

Letters

Continuation of a letter. Even though it's in the same font size as the regular text and has the same margins, the Project Comments specified that letters should be in Block Quotes. So, enclose all of it, including the signature (which also needs to be in no-wrap, because it's right-justified), in Block Quotes.

For more information on formatting letters, see the sections on Correspondence and Signatures.


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