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such a magnificent home I do not know
The rather vulgar taste of its owner is evidenced by the lavish display of gold everywhere. Naked figures appear everywhere. All the chambers are vast – the private dining room for himself only is twice as large as our ground floor & can seat about 50 people. The great concert room has a stage which rises out of the floor at will & if room is required for a dance subsides again. Near roof there is a hidden galleries on roof of which are several painting of nymphs surrounded by trains & clouds.
Luncheon preceded by cocktails & followed by cigars is very pleasant. My companion is very interesting & as my his ideas coincide with [Omar Rhaigams] I promise to buy him an edition. I leave him about 4 pm & visit Villejuif to find Angels friend but find the mother & 2 children with scarlet fever & the girl is away at Montmartre all day & only returns about 7 pm to her home.
To night on the Boulevarde I met a Lt Donnet an English officer in the Royal West Kent whom I had previously met at Cox Bank. He invites me to his rooms at Wagram for a drink. His suite is magnificent an enormously large room filled with roses & on