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May 24th. 1890.  Saturday.
 
As we had no lessons to-day I had plenty of time to go to the Salon in the morning.  The picture I like best of all those I saw, is by Bougereux.  It represents two begger girls.  One about 12 is standing in front with the sweetest expression in her large brown eyes.  Her wavy hair is pushed back from her forehead, and is loose over her shoulders. 
The other girl, ^[[insertion]] her sister, [[/insertion]] is several years elder, and the expression of her eyes is perhaps sader.  A shawl hides her hair, and covers part of her body.They both have bare feet, and are standing
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in a doorway.  It is beautifully painted, and extremely life like.  There was another picture I liked very well called "Lecture en Cachette".  A girl in bed was reading, that is a book was in
front of her, but she was looking up;  The expression of her eyes was very sweet, and something like an angelic smile rested on the lips.  It is by Zuber-Bufler
"Le Matin apres le bal" by Anderson was very pretty.  It represents a girl in bed reading the paper.  She has a sweet half asleep face, and pretty light hair.  "Beethoven" by Benjamin
Constant was very naturel. "Calme plat; marine" by Berthelon, very quiet and

Transcription Notes:
Bouguereau is the artist's name. Zuber-Buhler is the artist's name.