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Apr. 12th  Sick with a cold, and a snow storm outside.  fooled away all the day, and now after trying to take a nap have broken the looking glass Mr. Bacon made for me.  It fell on the floor with a crash giving me a great start.  I picked it up and read on the paper inside
"Buried in Flowers.'

All that was mortal of Henry G. Trickey is now laid away in the silent grave.  At  2.30 a long line of mourners left the train(...............and silently filed into the darkened parlor in which lay the dead body of the unfortunate newspaper man"

One never can tell what may happen to cheer [[strikethrough]]them[[/strikethrough]] him up. 

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This is the most dismal book to dip into! It makes me laugh to read a page in it haphazard.

I doubt if anyone feels as often inclined  to express (in a diary) a happy state of feeling. While on the contrary it is most natural to conceal discontent in conversation. I am very sure however that is is the dismal  that really predominates in me.

Finished "The Heavenly Twins."  An interesting book. Advanced and really high ideas on women, expressed wittily & with decidedly original incident and arrangement. An obliviousness of sequence and traditional form in a novel, that is refreshing & saves the book from heaviness. Personally, I

Transcription Notes:
Trickey was a controversial reporter in the Lizzie Borden case. Sarah Grand's book is back in print and an interesting take on gender à la 1890s