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what he wanted he did not know. So one of the ladies told him to sit down on a chair in the hall, and no attention whatever was payed to him. At the end of an hour she considered that the punishment was great enough, and so told him he might go.

He got up and as he was leaving the house asked if he might come the next time.

Esther Hunt went

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to the opera with me to-day. The Gerry boys went with Alfred & Regi and they talked all through.

The oldest Robert kept making remarks to me about the people, such as "She is trying to flirt with too many at once" "He is trying to decline a latin verb" "They are seeing which can scream the loudest" etc. etc.

It was the Hugonots, and the [[airs?]] all through