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too and of course he had more polish than most American lads of 20 would have been. But I'm sure his life was a purely idle one

Galla's engagement is broken! I was told so by Mrs. Holt some little time ago, when I happened to meet her in a Fifth Ave stage, but as I still thought the conditions were merely modified so far as the public was concerned - judging from what Mrs. Thayer had told me at the end of September, I told her I hadn't heard of it (the breaking. When I wrote Mrs. T for Christmas I asked for the 

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