The scene the night before, and the letter I'd sent that morning, had forced her to take to her bed.

昨天晚上那场风波和今天早晨我那封信使她躺倒在床上。

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Given one party could not present on the scene due to some reasons, the written Letter of Entrustment shall be submitted.

收养人一方因故不能到场的，应出具书面委托书。

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Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

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Roth was confused, and so he did what any giant of the American literary scene can do in these circumstances, and wrote a lengthy open letter to Wikipedia in the New Yorker (from which the above quotation is taken).

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There is also the famous scene from the movie, Saving Private Ryan, in which General Marshall reads the letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs.

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