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got down and came into the house.

Mama and Papa were to receive them, and I think the fellows were a little shy for they waited down stairs for Bill who was seeing that the table & names were right with me. One fellow had been forgotten and I had to rush upstairs and make another dinner card.  Finally however everything was fixed and Bill went in to do his

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part of introducing.

I was meanwhile waiting for the dinner to be served that I might see them go in. But there was not much to see, [[strikethrough]]and[[/strikethrough]] but more to hear. For they sang songs through dinner, and some were very pretty. Some would sing bass others tenor and one tried rather to get up to soprano.

At eight Harry's fellows left in three hired carriage, and a little later Bill's in our omnibus and a
landau, all off for the