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Vanderbilt for me."

"Yes, I will," I said.

Then I felt more like myself, I remembered I was going out to dinner and the moment the door closed I started for the hall. But who should I meet coming back to the parlor but Mr. Laurence.

"Is your father going too," he asked. This seemed to be strange but I said yes then as he seemed undecided about leaving. I said two of my brothers stayed, the rest of us went. He bowed and left. I ran up stairs after the door had fairly closed on him and dressed hurriedly for dinner. A few minutes after I had been in my rooms
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[[strikethrough]] few minutes [[/strikethrough]] Gladys brought me in a box of flowers. I opened it and found a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] nice message from Mo with an enormous bunch of violets. So I put them on my black dress at the belt where they looked lovely. I hope I looked well that night. I wanted to enough.

The dinner was large. Mr. Sands came to me after dinner and they had dancing.

When I left I said Good bye to Mr. Sands as if I were going to see him the next day, or as if we did [[underline]] not care [[/underline]] in the least for each other. He was standing at the door when I went out. Mr Whitehouse and several others