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{sideways on left of page] Today Sunday Ann went to noon mass so Una did not go to
church till the afternoon. I am getting much better.

Una did not come to scold but to
express pity for her wretchedness, she
soon began to cry. I can facy the
tones of Una's voice acting like Moses'
rod on the rock. Se discovered that
both the woman and her baby were
ill, and that there was a a little dress
cut out for the baby which the woman
had no chance to make, because
the bay was fractious and she herself
poorly. So Una brought home the
little dress to make for her. This was
on 16th April. Have I told you that on
that day Mrs Bull made me a long visit,
bringing me a super bouquet of
different colored verbenas, scarlet
geraniums, heliotrope and
rose geranium. She as altered
exceedingly and looked wildly
unhappy. Nearly all her front teeth
have gone since I saw her, and
she has left off coloring her hair
as if she did not care how she looks.
Her face was also much flushed.
As usual she confided to me a great
deal of misery, chiefly about the
intellectual starvation of her
children, and Ephraim's deep
dejection thereat. I had a letter
that day from MM Ray, saying she
had heard of Mrs Vanderooster's
illness only through me.

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