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At any rate I [[red underline]] shall not encourage Nina [[\red underline]] by giving her more money.
This evening [[red underline]] Clairette [[\red underline]] came here for supper and then Albert drove her back.  I wanted to find out more about this [[red underline]] rascally count. [[\red underline]]  From what I hear he is simply and [[red underline]] adventurer [[\red underline]] who already has had two [[red underline]] divorces [[\red underline]] against him and who is in [[red underline]] need of money [[\red underline]] and anxious to marry somebody who can bring him some cash.  [[red underline]] Stupid, selfish, vanitous girls like Nina, [[\red underline]] who never are flattered by our upright, sincere, outspoken honest american boys, [[red underline]] easily fall prey to this class of vampires. [[\red underline]]

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July 26. Went to Bronxville to hospital to take [[red underline]] Capart [[\red underline]] here for lunch.  He confirms that this [[red underline]] Czaki [[\red underline]] has [[red underline]] a very shady [[\red underline]] past and a bad reputation.  Afterwards came here Dr. [[red underline]] de Boslegnt, [[\red underline]] that Russian Professor of Petrograd who told me the most extraordinary [[red underline]] story about his experiences in Russia [[\red underline]] during the Bolsheviki regime and his escape to Mourmansk Coast in a freight car.  The French Revolution episodes sink into paleness compared to what this tyranny by low uneducated illiterate peasant and soldiers are carrying on.
In the evening Rossi and May came here for supper to recommend to me to spend from $60000 to $100000 for equipping