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The students have no regard for people’s weaknesses and the more they can find in a man the more he amuses them. There is one poor Englishman about forty years old who they guy all the time. He has a very heavy brogue and every thing he says they imitate; they have him perfectly wild. 

Then there is a Frenchman about the same age whom they keep at all the time; they call him papa. And you hear it all the time: “Eh papa! They all take it good naturedly, if they did not it would be the worse for them. They have not got on [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] to yours truly yet but I suppose they will soon.

But I keep very quiet so they wont have any chance to and not being able to speak French enables me to keep quiet without much trouble. 

I think I have bored you enough about the school and my self so I think I will branch of onto something interesting. 

We went over to the Louvre yesterday aft. and among other things we saw the original of that Venus with both arms gone. The Venus of Milos. You have no idea of the beauty of the statue from the casts. There is an indescribable charm about the original that the copies don’t have. She stands at the