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to manage and I wish this week well over. It is plain enough to me that none of them like him and Aunt Sarah went into fits of suppressed giggles yesterday at dinner when I said something about his quif and his looking badly. It is quite plain to me that setting aside his loneliness without Mrs Bacon the Cares of his family weigh upon him  and he don't know what to do without her. Naturally - they don't know anything about her though I suppose Aunt Eliza has written letters full about her and they look upon him as a widower 'taking notice' of me - and of course it makes me mad and is a bother. He is evidently going to stay here all the week and I don't know what to do with him. The cours is over for me, and of course he sees no reason why I should not go to places with 

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We dismissed our cab and took chairs on the main drive right at the heels of two of these noble creatures. So we watched them for a long time and stayed there until the carriages had all left the park. Then we paid our two francs and went in to see the illuminations, which were just beginning to show. There is an island in the long artificial lake and this island had a draped line of lights entirely around it - like this [[image]]- close to the waters edge and summer houses entirely made of lights in among the trees. The trees on the island were hung irregularly all over with flame colored Jap lanterns all the same color - very soft in light and intense in color - of course all of this was reflected in the water and as it was dusk and the sky still light, it was nearly nine o'clock. The lights did

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