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and devout.
He has certainly done much good work, and has suggested many good things.”
“April 12. Lunch with Mrs. Wheelwright.
I found Agnes Repplier very agreeable.
She had known the wife of Green, the historian, ‘very, almost too brilliant.’
Told me something about his life.
I enjoyed meeting her.”
“May 16. In the evening the Italian supper at the Hotel Piscopo, North End. I recited Goldoni's toast from the ‘Locandiera,’ and also made a little speech at the end of the banquet.
Padre Roberto, a Venetian priest, young and handsome, sat near me....”
“May 18.... I had prayed that this might be a real Whitsunday to me and I felt that it was. Notice was given of a meeting at which Catholic, Jew, Episcopalian, ”
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