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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918

1918-06-27 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2

somehow to look after myself and occasionally do something for you if you'll talk dog-voice to me.  Madame F - couldn't do that, you know, or anyway she didn't.
You were dead right on M. Coulon's stuff.  I swear I'll have to try some of my own French on you.  You might as well be learning because, of course, I'm going to send for you the moment the ban lifts and you'll not be satisfied after you get here until you parlez the language.  Oh yes, M. Coulon speaks English, and writes it very well.  Witness the note enclosed.  It is one he wrote to me when I was working from Paris and thought I was going to have a chance to go to see him.  I left before his reply to my letter telling them I was there came.
That was a long jump between letters: May 20 to May 27.  You've kidded me into thinking I am entitled to one every day or two or three.  But I have been through commencements.  I marvel that you could find time to write at all before you got away.  Daphne, you were doing just twice as much as you should have been doing during all the latter part of the school year, - and you know it.  You are not to do it again or anything like it.  Your husband speaks.  You

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somehow to look after myself and occasionally do something for you if you'll talk dog-voice to me. Madame F - couldn't do that, you know, or anyway she didn't. You were dead right on M. Coulon's stuff. I swear I'll have to try some of my own French on you. You might as well be learning because, of course, I'm going to send for you the moment the ban lifts and you'll not be satisfied after you get here until you parlez the language. Oh yes, M. Coulon speaks English, and writes it very well. Witness the note enclosed. It is one he wrote to me when I was working from Paris and thought I was going to have a chance to go to see him. I left before his reply to my letter telling them I was there came. That was a long jump between letters: May 20 to May 27. You've kidded me into thinking I am entitled to one every day or two or three. But I have been through commencements. I marvel that you could find time to write at all before you got away. Daphne, you were doing just twice as much as you should have been doing during all the latter part of the school year, - and you know it. You are not to do it again or anything like it. Your husband speaks. You