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On the 15th of December, 1878, in acknowledging
this letter, Butler wrote:
I am sure that any tree or flower nursed by Miss Cobbe would be
the _very_ first to fade away and that her gazelles would die
long before they ever came to know her _well_. The sight of the
brass buttons on her pea-jacket would settle them out of hand.
There was an enclosure in Miss Savage's letter, but it is
unfortunately lost; I suppose it must have been a newspaper cutting
with an allusion to Moore's poem and perhaps a portrait of Miss
Frances Power Cobbe--pea-jacket, brass buttons, and all.
On the 10th November, 1879, Miss Savage, having been ill, wrote to
Butler:
I have been dipping into the books of Moses, being sometimes at a
loss for something to read while shut up in my apartment. You
know that I have never read the Bible much, consequently there is
generally something of a novelty that I hit on. As you do know
your Bible well, perhaps you can tell me what became of Aaron.
The account given of his end in Numbers XX is extremely ambiguous
and unsatisfactory.


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