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the hotel was obliged to tell him not to come any more.   It seems that he is the Admiral of the arsenal here and is a little out of his head. He use to make the most hidious faces at the guests and sit for five or ten minutes with his mouth open and his hands up to his ears as if he were listening to something. He kept us in roars all the time. The american girl could hardly eat her dinner she laughed so much. Well he has left and so much amusement has gone. I suppose we will have to strike someone else for sport.   In your last you reminded me that your mother read all the letters. I am sure I am perfectly willing that anyone should read all I write. If I have written anything to displease either of you I stand ready to apologize though I cant [[can't]] remember when I did 


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so. 

Tomorrow, if it is fine we paint out of doors again, if not I go on with my head. I think it will be quit [[quite]] decent, if it goes on as well as it has so far. I have so many ideas for pictures that I dont [[don't]] know as I will have time to finish half of them. Graves has promised to sell one [[scene?]] for me. They tell us that it begins to grow warm in two or three weeks, so that next month it will be simply immune. We are working like slaves and ought to accomplish something. If chol.[[cholera]] permits I shall stop and study a while in Paris a couple of months or so. That is if I dont [[don't]] get bankrupt before then. It looks now as if I should be,

With regards to all
As ever,
E.C.T.