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207/ Why the last night, though he knew he was going off, he never even asked me to walk up & down, never said he was sorry to go, never said a thing in his whole life to me, that implied anything particular. Of course I saw he was different than when I first knew him, but his coming to see me all the time, is just what he has always done, & altogether I am dreadfully perplexed; I told Sister once that I was quite sure, that if we were thrown together in the same neighborhood for ten years that at the end of that time he would perhaps care for me, & that is just what I thought about it. I think he is certainly the queerest young man I ever saw, & I am sure no one else would behave in the same way. - But then he is so handsome, & so good, & I consider it such a compliment his liking me atall. - And then I may never see him again, & it is altogether horrid. - We went to the opera & heard Trovatore very badly sung, Krauss the same prima donna that was in Naples. -

(208 List of people we know, here at Baden this Summer Warrens. - Francias. Fields. Princesse. Brancaux. Phoenix. - Ogdens. - Kane. Mrs Little Osborns. - Clapps. - Demming Mrs M.O. Roberts Winthropes. - Pells. - Wilcoxon. Miss Niles. Hammersly. Burroughs. - Higginson. Conte de Sessee Tuares. - Kanes. = J.A. Grey. Ct. Corrie. Mr Little. - Coxes. Kings. - Lawrences. - Prescott. Fish. McCaggs. Sunday August 27th Of course having been well one month, I have been poorly again, & so we are off de nouveau! This is the lovelist place, & I've had such a good time, & I'm so sorry to go. It suits me exactly; the lazy life, the black forest, the old castles, the music all day long, enfin everything. The only places I like any where are, Chicago, St Augustine, Richfield Springs, Nice, & Baden-Baden. & New York pretty well. - Hamilton Fish Jr. has been here a few days, he seemed to be a nice youth. - This afternoon we sat in the Alley, & talked to the Brancacios the Prince