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resemble the dreadful "two".

That is what I started out with, and they were, at the time, the disgrace of my life. 

Had my picture taken with the rest of the young hopefuls at school once. Pa scolded Emma because she did not put back the graceless two from the forehead of this forlorn one. How badly I [[?]]! I had tried to paste them back (they were ever present in my mind) but had failed. And how my big brother did laugh and tease. 

By the way I had a jolly good letter from my brother other day. He thinks he can't write letters. But I never had a letter fuller of humor, sense, nonsense, and news than was his. In my answer I told him that really it was the best I had from any of my gentleman correspondents since I had been there, and I knew that was a compliment.

Well I am just finishing up the head and bust of Apollo Belvedere. Folks think it good. One of the girls told me today I would soon be in the antique class - belonged in there now. All she knew about it!

I sketched Mark tonight after I [[carrot]] had [[/carrot]] [[?]] him to sleep - Oh yes and I sketched him once before and the girls thought him to cunning. And I started to sketch the white house one day and Edgar is giving Myra sketching lessons in my