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shaded by the red damask curtains. It was all most charming and informal. 
 Am. White giving us delightful and intimate bits of disaffair of the great conference, I wish I could relate a half of it, but I must not make this into a book! The dinner itself [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] served by a butler and not one orderly! Was all that could be desired though simple some Southerns to share with them a glass or two of Bordeaux.

Am. White spoke very enthusiastically of Pres. Wilson and of his great ability. Speaking of Lloyd George, he described his facetious moments at the Peace Table, after cracking jokes with Clemenceau, Balfour next to him was more ponderous, George giving him

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area of Madison Square, an imposing bridge crosses the Seine at the other side. Pointing to this bridge Mr. White said he stood on that bridge in 1867 and came way near being cracked in a great crowd, adding that he was 17 years old at that time. I told him that I also 17 years old when I first crossed it in 1873 - So have we stood about, taking in the beautiful sight with the full moon rising, over the fridge of hundreds of captured gunman cannons which bordered the Square. Mr White told me how a French aviator had fallen in his madness during the war at a point only a few yards in front of us.

Dinner was presently announced and we were placed about the cosey little table beneath