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Wednesday we are to dine with the Jebbs—  May gets herself up to look very well—  
Mrs Horace and I talk about our children most of the time while she's posing—  Showed her the boys pictures today and she sees the resemblance between Harry & Erasmus - and thought Cecil charming—  Harry senior will be surprised to get my note about the box and my request that he should attend to it for me - but I thought it was best—  Today I got a note from Schapper-cotter enclosing cheque—  I shant want it now - am so glad you are well and comfortable in your sea-room——  
Please stay so until I get there - and we can really count on the time now when we shall visit—  We hear from Constance that she is no better and I feel sad about her—  She seems doomed to 

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every kind of detention—  Your sweet loving child—
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and we were invited to tea too with Mr Buckler, nice
young American under-fed—      Mr Langley's luncheon was delightful - He had two men to meet us - Mr Leeds - dont know his specialty - but think classics - and the beautiful Calender [[Calendar]] - a perfect Adonis - a Fellow of Trinity and the most brilliant of his generation - but delicate—  May says "he's a perfect arc. angel" — & she dont often think a man such—  After luncheon we went to the Bowling Green and walked about and talked - always a great deal of chaffing about American and differences of expression etc—  We amuse them greatly—  I dont wonder American women fascinate 
Englishmen - English women are not vivid even when they are clear and English girls carefully conceal what brightness they have—  I dont wonder