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of is tout de suite. Al has just shaved off his mustache and he looks like me.

Did I tell you dear about Small's saying at the table  He made some slurring remark about young fellows getting married and then when he thought everyone was listening he made a nasty little remark about my [[strikethrough]] going [[strikethough]] to [[strikethrough]] get [[strikethrough]] getting married. I told him something that I guess he did'nt relish so he and I dont speak now if we can help it. He never congratulated me when I told him I was engaged and Ill get even with him for that. See if I don't.

What do you think of a man like that darling? He is not very popular here I am happy to say. The fellows think that he thinks he knows too much and I dont know but what he is right. Just think a year ago this time I was just starting for Munich and the year before that you were in Richmond. We mange to keep 

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quite a ways apart in winter dont we dear? Lest us hope that this will be the last. I started on my picture this morning and also at our new class this afternoon. 

Yesterday we could'nt get a model for love or money and today we had 6 there when we started to work.

We have a first rate crowd of fellows and I hope we will do some good work. They are all in earnest anyway. 

The studio is only about 5 minutes walk from where I live and so it is quite convenient for me. No Small and Al did not join the same class that I did. We all go to the same school, Julien's but they are under different professeurs in a different part of the building. Small dont belong to this American class. They dont need him