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showy and outré! Louise less so but rather too elegant, while Blanche [[strikethough]] is extremely [[/strikethrough]] is extremely correct, severe in her taste and faultlessly chic, she also is more finely developed in her figure with prettier hand, and quieter manners. A very stylish girl. As regards virtues, very little attention is paid to them, deceitfullness particularly being a matter of course! Fearful tempers! The little boy getting the most abused as he is the weakest! The punishments have nothing whatever to do with real offence, only a matter of being out of humor. Literature of any description an unknown realm. Art a bore Great fondness for music of any lively or popular character from a hurdy-gurdy up. In fact nothing that is not most [[underline]] modern [[/underline]] and [[underline]] lively [[/underline]] is of any interest. Reflective pleasure being unknown. (What a difference from Boston which is afraid to [[end page]] [[start page]] go much out of the way in beaten opinions.) Having nothing internally to occupy or worry them, they are [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] the sharpest observers of what goes on around them, and "they know their Chicago!" I.E. the prominent people & lazy class like themselves that occupy its rich quarters. And such scandals! The Kreutzer Sonata is mild in comparison. Cousin Louise told me that she did not believe there was a man living who had not gone astray at some time of his life. Sat. Cousin Carrie Baldwin called and went to fair with us. Many very good people have a faculty for boring one. The people that find everything in this world wonderful and beautiful.
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facility