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chauffeurs in expensive livery uniform. As in Rio [[red underline]] much electric light everywhere. [[/red underline]] Abundant water power. Pretty little square with Royal Palms and flowers in front of my hotel. Once more [[red underline]] I wish Celine were here. [[/red underline]] She certainly would like this place. I am bringing some orchids home for her. but wonder whether they will stand the trip and live in Yonkers. They are the very orchids found everywhere around here on the trees.
At night this place is as dead as a dead mouse yet there is a certain charm of walking along the canals and observe the villas in the special [[strikethrough]] half a [[/strikethrough]] light effect and shadows and now and then a few distant
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notes of some piano or other musical instrument.
My [[red underline]] orchids [[/red underline]] are suspended on the keys of my wardrobe and lend a special cheerfulness in my brightly illuminated [[strikethrough]] little [[/strikethrough]] room. I hope they will blossom at home.
[[strikethrough]] My room [[strikethrough]] The windows of my room had been left [[strikethrough]] often [[/strikethrough]] ^[[open]] and when I got to bed it was so cool as to make me feel slightly chilly; The first time this happened since I left New York. According to my barometer the elevation is only [[red underline]] 2600 feet. [[/red underline]]
I noticed several [[red underline]] Auracacia Brasiliensis [[/red underline]] also the same kind of reed which resembles bamboo and gracefully curves into an arch. and [[red underline]] which was so abundant in Rio Grande del Sul. [[/red underline]]
April 20. Up early after a refreshing night sleep. No noise here around this place. Bright and