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[[left side]] course be enough if one could depend on more than two fine days in a week. But I am going to try it any how. No new prospect for Italy - It does seem hard for me to have to take a companion— I have nothing new and interesting to tell about this week- except that I took a most beautiful walk one morning with Monsieur Courant a French Artiste (2eme medaille) to a little long deserted old church, St. Jean, standing on an exquisite close green lawn under beech trees - led to by the loveliest of chemin creux - about which I could only say that they were trees, corners and grass— And that would give you no idea of the loveliness and color and character - of it all— Monsieur Courant is a little ponderous but not at all the wicked Frenchman— He speaks fearful English, has blue eyes like a baby, and is a hard worker and an enthusiast about nature - a little stout, a [[right side]] little old, and somewhat pathetic— He was a pupil of Meissonnier and friend of Detaille and talked about them all. Altogether it was a very interesting and novel experience - six miles long, and I was'nt very tired. We sat down to rest near an old well, a spring with an arch over it - old - old - old - said to have miraculous properties - but we did'nt try it. So Belle is thinking again of coming over here. I hav'nt an idea that she will. They have the craziest way of thinking they may do things and then not doing them— It would'nt be a cheap thing to do— But it would be awfully jolly to see them— Oh, Aunt Eliza if I could only take you to Italy instead of May - But I ought'nt to tantalize you. I can't help thinking of it. I have two or three unanswered letters of Dr Bacon's. It is hard to know what to do with him - And I wish Daisy were not coming to West Phila— He