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the latin names of the flowers [[strikethrough]] and [[\strikethrough]] while passing and bend them tenderly over with his walking stick to see them better. Behold the selling sum of a [[?]] life still giving warmth to much of which was blown away uselessly by the storms of adversity. Tate was not denied to my poor old father and mother To Mama; it all should have been different.

Papa does not love Austria any more, it took him a long time to see the perniciousness of her regime. Henirich hasn't escaped it and his life has been beaten into a pulp, making the right sort of paper for the house Habsburg to write "history" upon. Oscar might stand it a little longer, that he wastes his physical strength without remand. Papa said today that if he was still sixty we would leave Austria forthwith.

And its expensive here, almost as costly to live as in America, they get little for their [[?]] crowns. Still they are content.