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An account of the affair was included in a letter to John Arnot about the same time , and Burns prefixed his own transcript of the letter with this note : ... I had got deeply in love with a young Fair - One , of which proofs were every ...
An account of the affair was included in a letter to John Arnot about the same time , and Burns prefixed his own transcript of the letter with this note : ... I had got deeply in love with a young Fair - One , of which proofs were every ...
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He himself was unusually reticent about the affair , and we have to construct his side of the story from a few songs and several other cryptic references in his letters . It seems probable that he promised her marriage ; one of the ...
He himself was unusually reticent about the affair , and we have to construct his side of the story from a few songs and several other cryptic references in his letters . It seems probable that he promised her marriage ; one of the ...
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The reference to some wandering stabs of remorse ' earlier in the letter may be considered too slight an expression of his feelings under such circumstances , but one must remember that neither Aiken nor any other of his friends appears ...
The reference to some wandering stabs of remorse ' earlier in the letter may be considered too slight an expression of his feelings under such circumstances , but one must remember that neither Aiken nor any other of his friends appears ...
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