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Again, a month later, she writes: April 19, 1886. Beard replied that he had already read it twice. His loss stuns me and unfits me to speak. In my notebook, under date ofSeptember 16th, appears this entry: Windy in valleys but not cold.

China never wanted foreigners any more than foreigners wanted Chinamen, and on this question I am with the Boxers every time. I mentioned the matter to the Duke and it made him smile. If there wereundercurrents and undertow they were down somewhere out of sight. The Elite of the town were there, and so was the Governor ofthe State, occupying one of the boxes, whose rotund face was suffusedwith a halo of mirth during the whole entertainment.