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In ordinary circumstances I might have again written and simply called attention to the absence of reply to my application. But the circumstances are unfortunately very far from ordinary - the studious avoidance in your letter of the 19th February of the slightest allusion to the disclosures, now proves how naturally desirous I must have been to avoid any reference to them.

You will pre-sumably venture to think you would have favoured me with an answer to my letter had it been properly laid before you, because later on, taking the deep interest I do in all Colonial matters, and able to see your leadership at the Conference which has proved such a substantial success both to the Colonies and to the Mother Country, I feel that a man of courtesy and capacity, as you have, in deed, garnered golden opinions, no more ready than I am to let the past rest and to hope for the best rather than to pick a quarrel; but in this kind, I cannot hesitate for a moment to throw down the glove, being the first to draw the swords.

When Sir George Bowen came to Hong Kong I received him with the greatest kindness and attention, as have those who have been my most trustworthy friends (his own letters show his amusing attempt at one time to make himself out to be one of them); after he had been treated in the way I have been, I could not allow him to be treated in the same way.

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In ordinary circumstances I might have again written and simply called attention to the absence of reply to my application. But the circumstances are unfortunately very far from ordinary - the studious avoidance in your letter of the 19th February of the slightest allusion to the disclosures, now proves how naturally desirous I must have been to avoid any reference to them.You will pre-sumably venture to think you would have favoured me with an answer to my letter had it been properly laid before you, because later on, taking the deep interest I do in all Colonial matters, and able to see your leadership at the Conference which has proved such a substantial success both to the Colonies and to the Mother Country, I feel that a man of courtesy and capacity, as you have, in deed, garnered golden opinions, no more ready than I am to let the past rest and to hope for the best rather than to pick a quarrel; but in this kind, I cannot hesitate for a moment to throw down the glove, being the first to draw the swords.When Sir George Bowen came to Hong Kong I received him with the greatest kindness and attention, as have those who have been my most trustworthy friends (his own letters show his amusing attempt at one time to make himself out to be one of them); after he had been treated in the way I have been, I could not allow him to be treated in the same way.
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