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no one is refused and many have a number—  It is a perfect farce—  I should never want to get in as a Julien pupil—  They  most of them  send drawings, some simply drawings of heads—  Wish I could see the famous yacht—    Is'nt Uncle Will going to write me any more letters - He did'nt write 15 and some of them are little short ones—  I find it dont suit my eyes now to use them  so hard all day and then the evening too—  
So it is particularly hard to find time to write in the day time—  I was going to give up composition 

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for next week  but the Subject and  all that is expected of me  tempt me—  No one will beleive that I am not in the habit of illustrating books—  Fleury said today that mine (not knowing whose it was) showed 'une grande habitude' sniffing a little.  It seems to me that the rest are very stupid that is all and I dont see how they can present such absurd conceptions—  They seem to cast aside all common sense - when they begin to compose—
We have very quiet evenings nowadays - go to bed very early - at least I do - as I cant use my eyes—