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but put aside.  One was getting some man who C.V. jr liked to go over Saturday and meet him as if by accident.  [[strikethrough]] One [[/strikethrough]] That might have made him suspicious.  One was to telegraph him [[strikethrough]] as soon as [[/strikethrough]] just after Grace left here to come back.  But we did not think he would obey
Mama said [[strikethrough]] someth [[/strikethrough]] among other things that she was so unscrupulous she might even "marry him to morrow [[?]] before he sailed" and that put it into my head to think that they be getting married
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at that moment for all we knew.  There is nothing the girl would not do.  She is at least 27, he is 22, has had unbounded experience.  Been engaged several times.  Tried hard to marry rich men.  Been after Jack Astor to such an extent that all New York talked about it.  Is so diplomatic that even the men are deadly afraid of her.  There is [[underlined]] nothing [[/underlined]] she would stop at.  There is no one attentive to her.  she thinks aside from it being a Vanderbilt it will be her last chance.  Oh its a terrible affair.  Some