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would have made up for any small sacrifices of daily patience.  May is very anxious to combine.  I am really more comfortable here than I would be anywhere where I did'nt have a room to myself,— and I'm not a bit tired of the restaurant yet - we do have such good dinners (Uncle Will I'm not getting to be "fond of the meals" I mean good nourishment - but it is deliciously cooked) Even Emma's broiled liver could'nt beat what we had last night— 
If you want to turn stewed prunes from prose to poetry - dont cook them rich with sugar, but put about a teaspoonful of brandy and a sprinkling of sugar on them  I suppose a little wine would do - before you put them on the table—  Try it and witness the transformation The Austins are evidently awfully poor but are very jolly—  Cecil looks well dressed and prosperous and very swell and handsome—  Looks 

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manly and brainy, and as if he had splendid stock in him and was going to be something—  Perhaps it is partly because any American man shows well over here - but if any body ever found his proper sphere Cecil has, and it makes him happy and jolly - and it will do him such a lot of good to be a doctor  Of course he is the same Cecil, and always will be more or less of a bully - but of course the more he finds that the world to which he is now exposed will have none of this the more he will have to give it up or confine it to a very small circle—  He evidently goes out a good deal, and is so presentable that of course he is liked—  He is also his old funny self again - I wish you could have heard him the other night—  You know Lucy Conant is, dear girl, extremely plain  Cecil knows her and we were talking about her great cleverness and managing faculty economy etc - "Yes," Cecil