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[[in]]teresting looking man - of course somewhat like the photo we have only stouter and older and looks as if he had been through "travail of spirit"—
Made me think a little of Phillips Brooks but in stead of that rushing utterance - M. Bercier has the most clear and perfect voice and manner and is really charming—  Of course it was historical only, but all the same we listened breathlessly - and I was so proud that I was a Huguenot and Puritan combined—  His subject was the History of the Eglise Libre of France—  It was all in the most beautiful French though he spoke a few words afterwards in excellent English 

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for the benefit of those who could not understand French—  They took up a collection afterwards for a monument to Admiral Coligny which is to be put up near the Louvre and to which the American Church is allowed to contribute  
I'm awfully sorry about the poor fraulein [[fräulein]] and all your troubles about her and that I am not to see her and hear her play—  What a set of fools The Landells must be - but the world is full of such - very few people are sensible when you come to find them out - and its generally a selfish pride that makes them silly - but they cant help it if they feel a good