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not be as many people as were there, in fact I know there aren't, but there may not be any more next year. I hope you will come."

Then he referred to what we had been talking about and said: "I hope you won't have a nice time a bit"

"Oh how unkind," I said laughing. "That is cruel."

"Yes but then I can see you. I can be with you the whole evening," he said. And with a little more talk of this kind he shook hands, wished me a pleasant voyage and was gone.

I am going to use this book as it is so very private
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for writing all my experiences of one kind and another with my friends. It will often be a relief and I often have the time right after I have met them when I can remember everything that has passed between us. Then it always makes the additional pleasure of reading over and so recalling pleasant hours. I should like dances, dinners, calls and parties of kinds to be described and talked about here. No one can possibly pry into it so there can be no reason why I should not write the whole truth. Then when I get old and have no more friends I can live in the