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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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that. But I know that even the least letter is better than none. It is eleven o'clock and after. Mangan and Meade and Grantland Rice got me into a bridge game tonight and we played until nearly eleven. What I don't know about bridge would certainly take awhile to tell, but I got on swimmingly until the last hand - and then I certainly spilled the beans. If I took any pride, as some folks do, in being able to play a good hand at the game, I'd feel dreadfully chagrined. But I have no feeling; I can't worry over the mere loss of a few hundred points. Reading farther in your letter I find it tells that you had got up in the dead of night to write because you couldn't sleep. Such nerves, my dear girl! You certainly were working too hard on your show at that time. I suppose if I had been there you would have awakened me, no? I'm such a healthy pup I never wake up after I get to sleep unless somebody jars me out of it. But I'm like you in finding it difficult to shake off wakefulness. Particularly in times of stress, when my mind is working very hard on something as yours no doubt was on "The Sammy-backers", I can't calm down enough to fall asleep for an hour or so. You needed me that night, didn't you, honey? Think how much nicer it would have been if instead of getting up to write to me you could have smuggled up against my
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that. But I know that even the least letter is better than none. It is eleven o'clock and after. Mangan and Meade and Grantland Rice got me into a bridge game tonight and we played until nearly eleven. What I don't know about bridge would certainly take awhile to tell, but I got on swimmingly until the last hand - and then I certainly spilled the beans. If I took any pride, as some folks do, in being able to play a good hand at the game, I'd feel dreadfully chagrined. But I have no feeling; I can't worry over the mere loss of a few hundred points. Reading farther in your letter I find it tells that you had got up in the dead of night to write because you couldn't sleep. Such nerves, my dear girl! You certainly were working too hard on your show at that time. I suppose if I had been there you would have awakened me, no? I'm such a healthy pup I never wake up after I get to sleep unless somebody jars me out of it. But I'm like you in finding it difficult to shake off wakefulness. Particularly in times of stress, when my mind is working very hard on something as yours no doubt was on "The Sammy-backers", I can't calm down enough to fall asleep for an hour or so. You needed me that night, didn't you, honey? Think how much nicer it would have been if instead of getting up to write to me you could have smuggled up against my
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