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few cabs. This was indeed strange and we could not understand what it meant but finally came to the conclusion that the telegrams when Papa sent the evening before did not arrive. So we were obliged to drive up to the house in cabs. Everything was quiet showing that we were not expected. Cornelius arrived last evening, and I had the pleasure, if so it might be called, of seeing him first and telling him of our arrival. I visited the stable, cottage and the dogs. Sancho know me and wagged 
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113 his tail without stopping. Virginia is looking splendidly and [[Bitty?]] is in very good health, so that I will be able to use her. Although none of the trunks will arrive till tomorrow morning Papa insisted upon our going to church. So we all went but Mama and there saw my friends. It was very hard not to speak to them, but I had to wait patiently until church was over and then I only had a second to say "how do you do" to the Blights, Shermans and Edith Cushing. This afternoon Alice & Edith B. and Sybil S. came to see if I would

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Name on second page--is it Bitty?