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and the pavement - does it go all across the side walk! and the dining room, would I could see it, but I shall soon, and let us hope these few moths longer will pass quickly and uneventfully.
So many of your prayers for me have been answered. I have come back safe from Italy and I am among friends with every chance of being well lodged and fed. Now it only remains to accomplish what I stayed for, and then off I go. My portrait of Mrs. Conant is not sufficient I think for the Salon nor the women's heads sufficiently finished. The hands knitting are not done at all except as a lump of pink. I stayed that week longer in Concarneau to finish them and did'nt have one day when I could even make a sketch for them. When I see them again I can tell better; they are hanging up now in the Conants rooms. So I