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it would only be to avoid having a big wedding."  And some more in this strain but all as an excelent joke.  Alice said I remember quite distictly:  "Well Gertrude you could do that perhaps, but I never could because Mother has had so much trouble."  And then we talked of other things.  After a while we got talking of our friends and she told me about a friend of hers - a man - about 23 or 4 whom she thought was a splendid character.  She said her mother had
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liked the man when she first met him, but that as soon as she discovered [[strikethrough]] that his [[/strikethrough]] ^[[who his]] father was she told Alice she must not see him any more.  Alice did not tell me who his father was or his name or any more then this, but the moment I heard the contents of the telegram these two bits of conversation leaped into my mind, and I told them to Mama.  Fifteen minutes later which was at nine o'clock the victoria was at the door and Mama and I started

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