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girls put on as they cam in, & the affected way in which they sat down. Annie Beckwith in white musline & Grecian bend, & Annie Douglas looking as if she were forty. This afternoon Sister & I took Mr Grant up to Lincoln Park, we had a very jolly ride.

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Lou Phillips came to see me the other evening, she looked pretty & intends going to Vassar College in the Fall, the Whitneys are going too. Fay is going to Farmington; there will be very few left at home of the girls next Winter. Mrs Hickey gave us our Sunday-school lesson at her house the day before she left. Fay in white alpaca & red trimmings, Mamie Sater? looking very pretty, Lou Phillips, Julia Rumsey with a chignon, Annie Kelly, & Annie Beckwith all were there. Robby was of course the centre of attraction, but he disappointed me in not being especially sweet on Fay as I expected, which was strange when it was there last evening together before separating for some time; I mischevously gave him one of the tassels off the fringe of her dress for a keepsake, for which he doubtless was very grateful; (or ought to have been). He was next word underlined very snipish, & is about to enter Yale College, his mother of course thinks him perfection.— This afternoon I saw Amanda Shields driving out with a young gent. it seemed so funny to see one of the girls driving out like a young lady; she has grown quite pretty, indeed all the girls have improved, Fannie Sheldon among them.