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horrid - such anxiety and bother - & fear lest we should do the wrong thing, and having to decide quickly—  It was dreadful, and I hated this old Paris and was so homesick - even now that we are beginning to settle it is only a sort of probation, and I shall be so glad when it is done and I set my face toward home—    Of course I had no Thanksgiving Turkey, but I was determined to go to church and stopped the machinery to go—  It means and counts for a great deal more to go to church here than at home and I wish going at home was accompanied by the same anticipation and refreshment—  I went to the American Church on the rue de Berri where I used to go last winter - not the same nice Minister, nor an interesting sermon - but I was so glad to be there that it was all good enough for me - only I was sorry that I could not think of you all in church at the same time you were just getting up and having a good rub I hope with your scratcher 

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I had a lot to be Thankful for Though I had'nt a peaceful more happy heart; but I tried to believe That The Angel was not going to let us do the wrong thing here any more than before, or on our Italian Trip, which was surely a good and careful hading—   We were "personally conducted"—  Another time I am going back to where I left off about that and I must go on about Paris—  Know then that I have taken a studio too - a small one - but it is in the rue Notre Dame des Champs No 34 - near the rue de Rennes   I have settled myself you see in the exact locality where I wanted to be—
There was no such thing as finding an apartment such as we wanted with Miss Wright—  Neat lovely one was taken at once by the year - also another not so nice also taken - and we preferred giving up the idea altogether to going off to the ends of the earth where I suppose we might have found something   It is better this way and will cost us less - and I daresay Miss Wright