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All else went for next to nothing . Next morning 's mail brought Cope a letter from Arthur Lemoyne . The letter was short -- at least when compared with Cope 's own plentiful pennings ; but it gave our young instructor a few points to think about while he was illuminating Clarissa Harlowe and making some careful comments on Joseph Andrews . Released toward noon , he read the letter over again ; and he ran over it again during lunch . Lemoyne possessed a variety of gifts , but the gift of letter-writing , in an extended form , was not among them . He said all he had to say in four moderate pages . `` Yours received , '' he wrote .