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presumption to the detriment of everybody around her. [[red underline]] I dread the possibility of she dictating orders and irritating all the splendid men who are now working for me in the General Bakelite Co [[/red underline]] and who have helped me to bring this enterprise where it is to day. She has never shown any good feelings towards me and I have no doubt that even if this whole fortune came suddenly in her possession she would still have scant feeling of anything like [[strikethrough]] thankful [[/strikethrough]] responsibility of the trust left in her hands. -- not to mention even thankfulness for the result of our past efforts. She is the anomaly in our family. Some kind of atavism of some of the unpleasant member of 
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Celine's family as well as of mine but we shall have to accept her as she is and [[red underline]] Celine has tried [[/red underline]] hard to influence her character and tendencies in the right way. What a difference is she with that splendid boy [[red underline]] George! I believe that if Nina had no [[/red underline]] money and if she had to provide her own living and thus be able to measure the hardships of others by her own instead of taking things for granted it [[red underline]] might perhaps have a favorable influence [[/red underline]] on her character. [[red underline]] If she marries, the more dependent she has to be on her husband the more chance the latter will have of curbing her arrogance and [[strikethrough]] selfis [[/strikethrough]] presumption. [[/red underline]]
Dec 31. Hurried to New York to deliver my stock certificates [[strikethrough]] of R.R. railroads to [[/strikethrough]] which Goodbody & Co has sold