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[[left margin in red]] Paris [[red underline]] 
Place de la Concorde. Taxes [[/red underline]] paid by the Club are [[red underline]] very small [[/red underline]] - nothing in comparison to our $100000 at the University of New York
Afternoon went to fetch my suit and coat made by that [[red underline]] Scotch taylor. [[/red underline]] Material is all right but [[red underline]] the fit is a joke! [[/red underline]] Got some cash at the bank the Dollar = [[red underline]] 15.75 [[/red underline]] francs
Jan 28 (Sunday) Packing all morning. [[red underline]] Count and Countess de la Valette [[/red underline]] for lunch at hotel. An excellent lunch including best wines and champagne total bill is [[strikethrough]] $130 [[/strikethrough]] $13.00 or 13.x16 = 208 francs. Afterwards paid my hotel bill and tips to all
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[[left margin in red]] Marseilles [[/left margin]]
servants - a bothersome business.
Left for [[red underline]] Marseille [[/red underline]] in sleeping car (Wagon-lits) at 8:00 P.M. Stopped because too much hand baggage so had to go around and have everything weighed a lot of formality finally had to pay 50 centines!! [[red underline]] (3 cents) [[/red underline]] supplement for which bill and receipt was duly filed and written in etc. etc! [[red underline]] Ill smelling cramped [[/red underline]] sleeping car. Reminds me of [[red underline]] Brazilian Sleeping car Experience. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] An a [[/strikethrough]] decent London broker was put to sleep on folding berth above me. [[red underline]] Washing bowl [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] & sanitary outfit [[/strikethrough]] inside [[red underline]] very primitive and unpratical. W.C. [[/red underline]] outside