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and have calculated to live on about $6 a week apiece  Mr Wilson and Frank are probably going to Italy soon. In the mean time they have all come, and all look jaded, and Julie in the state of hollow eyed excitement. They, she and Frank, saw everything in London and now she says Mrs Wilson is so scared at finding how much more money they have spent than she expected, that she, Julie, is afraid of Mrs. Wilson's turning off home again; hence her wild efforts after cheapness.

Annie and Emily have come too. And Paris seems very full of people, now, almost too much so. There are too many sides to life, one hardly 



has time to think. I shall be glad to see Miss Fanny Lea; but I dont want any more 'valuable friends' - I dont know what to do with those I have. And what shall I do when Mr Van Ingen, Mr. Gibson and L.W.B come? The latter will expect me to devote my self to him, and will have all sorts of extraordinary plans - such as climbing the column Vendome with him or something - I dread him - Annie and Emily and "Tru and Ma' arrived on Sunday night. I went to see them on Monday and sat with them while they ate their lunch. They were very nice and we enjoyed meeting each other.