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the hearing apparatus in the bath rooms are usually out of order and it costs two or three hundred francs to fix them sometimes.  We must also know that the chimneys are all right and the plumbing.  To add to my depression I have today discovered a place beautifully furnished and much nicer than ours that I could rent for a short time or a long time for forty or forty five dollars a month - an apartment with lovely things - rugs, etc., bathroom, elevator and all - to be sub let from an American.  It make me sick that I did not wait a little longer. They have not made the repairs at the apartment yet.  The man who waxes floors said it would be twenty five francs to wax the floors.  I spent all day running about looking at furniture different people had to sell, thinking I might save some thing that way, but it was mostly

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