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all day. Mrs. Anderson was here by 10'oclock in answer to my note. She can accommodate Wood with board and is to write him today as I have Vanderlip called. He is out of employment Yenell told me on Saturday night and he thinks him pretty much broken. I feel sorry for him. His daughter is to be married and go away and he will be alone - but he never complains and never gives me a chance to show him any sympathy. Downing has invited me to go to the Opera with him tonight. Mary goes to Baltimore this afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with Julia and Harry and she has written Sara to come here. It is the first Thanksgiving day we have not shared at home. Downing had tickets to the Opera and he invited me. We saw Tristan and Isolde with Franklin Lehman as Isolde and Niemann as Tristan. I enjoyed very well but am not enough of a musician to enjoy it as many do. The House is a beautiful one.

Tuesday 22. Painting all day. I painted over the Katahdin and improved it. I am only looking now to the sale of my things. I am not doing much for art but all for money. It is sad to own it, but that is the truth. I feel that I am growing old and that the important thing now is to provide for my old age if possible. Calvert wanted money today to go to Baltimore and to let Marion have. I lent him $50 from the Estate fund for which he was very grateful. He is to pay it back in a few days as he has money due him. He and I went to see Pilotys Wise and Foolish Virgins at the Yandell Gallery this evening. I did not like the picture. It was hard and had no refinement of color and no freedom of execution. Look at the reddish brown shadow of the rose bush in front of the steps in the immediate foreground. How false and how disagreeable in color. This runs through the whole picture. From there we went up to the American Institute and were greatly entertained by the curious and ingenious things we saw. We stopped at the Club a little while and Shirlaw and I walked home together, if I can call home this place where I feel myself so homeless. I had a letter from Sara deciding not to come down for Thanksgiving but expecting me up and I shall therefore go.  

Wednesday 23. A letter from Jamie Andrews. He wants either Jamie or me to have my fathers watch which is at Saffords. Painted a little putting figures in some of my studies. I found it difficult however as they were not designed for figures and there seems no place for them. I went home by the 4 o'clock train after writing a note to Mrs. Cassidy the housekeeper complaining of the slovenly way my toilet articles are attended to.

Monday 28" Went home on Wednesday by 4 o'clock train. It was a dark foggy day. Found Sara alone and very glad to see me. We had our Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday our only guests being Girardie and Dwightie, in marked contrast with the Thanksgiving festival of other days when the table was set the whole length of the dining room and crowded with friends. We thought and talked of the absent ones and the changes. Indeed all the time I was at home an undertone of sadness rested over the dear old house for I could not help the constant feeling that it is to be ours only a little while longer. I wrote to Lucy on Thursday and to Alice. Friday I went to Kingston and got my fathers watch which Jamie Andrews had left with Safford. Saturday I went over to the cemetery where Tom has been putting manure on our lot to see how it had been done. The weather was like summer and we had the doors wide open a good part of the day. I occupied my Mothers room. Nannie who was to come up to be under Saras care could not make up her mind to come and was still undecided when I left. Sunday Girard and his boys and I walked over on Mrs. O'Reillys property where the Toboggan Club have bought a piece of her land. I came down Sunday evening with the 7.45 train and got to my room about 11 most reluctant to leave home and Sara alone. I have no heart for painting and feel unsettled and half sad all the time. I found Ortgies the Auctioneer had been to see me evidently about my sale. It is dark and rainy this morning. I went over to Marys to breakfast. Ellen gave me mine alone as 
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