"Well, I said, at any rate it is quite impossible for things to go on in their present state." He agreed, "I quite agree with you, I do not think they can." I said, "What then is to be done?" He said, "I don't know." That led me to mention what you had authorized me to say, "that you find the duties of your office different from what you had any idea of, that of Barff re- your connot the carry work, then His Excellency will be disposed to consider the application favourably."
Mr. Gibbons said, "It is too late. I have not the means about giving him leave of absence." I said, "His Excellency authorized me to say that if you apply for leave, he will grant it." Now, I thought it all arranged, and I wrote home to say I might be expected. But then Sir ... something ... that you find the duties of your office different from what you expected, that upset it all. I said, "things must take their course." I begged Gibbons to think over what I had said, and I hoped that Sir John ...
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